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If I were to tell you of a certain magic ring in my possession, the seal of which is a portrait of the Pythian Apollo, and actually speaks to me, I suppose you would decline to believe it, you would think I was bragging?

But in this matter of the Chinaman there isn't any difference between a man from Oregon and one from Sydney, only the Oregonian isn't a prig and a hypocrite; he's only a brute, a bragging, hard-handed brute.

The friend whispering his confession illustrates the one motive; the hero bragging of his deeds illustrates the other.

"My, but you're rich!" cried the bully of Putnam Hall. "Oh, I've got a good bit more than that," was the bragging answer.

"Get away, I say." "Get away, . . . you're bragging!" "Two weeks, that's all!" Suddenly our baker became enraged, and he raised the shovel against the soldier. The soldier stepped back, surprised, kept silent for awhile, and, saying ominously, in a low voice: "Very well, then!" he left us. During the dispute we were all silent, interested in the result.

He exaggerates his likes, and he exaggerates his dislikes, and he exaggerates his indifference. It is a way he has of bragging. The moment he puts pen to paper the imp of exaggeration seizes it. He lived to see the beginning of the Civil War, and in a letter to a friend expressed his indifference in regard to Fort Sumter and "Old Abe," and all that, yet Mr.

Daddy Eroshka was a superannuated and solitary Cossack: twenty years ago his wife had gone over to the Orthodox Church and run away from him and married a Russian sergeant-major, and he had no children. He was not bragging when he spoke of himself as having been the boldest dare-devil in the village when he was young. Everybody in the regiment knew of his old-time prowess.

That time I went down to Newcome, I went to see old Aunt Sarah, and she told me everything, and showed me the room where my grandfather you know; and do you know I was a little hurt at first, for I thought we were swells till then. And when I came back to school, where perhaps I had been giving myself airs, and bragging about Newcome, why, you know, I thought it was right to tell the fellows."

I said: "Look here, dear friend, what's become of your high wages you were bragging so about a few minutes ago?" and I looked around on the company with placid satisfaction, for I had slipped up on him gradually and tied him hand and foot, you see, without his ever noticing that he was being tied at all. "What's become of those noble high wages of yours?

I asked De la Haye to accompany me as a witness of what I had said in the coffee-room as well as of what had taken place in my apartment. I presented myself before the commander, whom I found surrounded by several officers, and, among them, the bragging Provencal. M. de Bertolan, who was a witty man, smiled when he saw me; then, with a very serious countenance, he said to me,