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Just eight days after his conception of this magnificent scheme the postman whistled at Partington's door and left this note: "OFFICE OF NURSERY DAYS, "NEW YORK, March 16, 1889. "Richard Partington Smithers, Esq.: "DEAR SIR, Can you call upon me some afternoon this week? Yours truly, "The bait is good, and I'll land the fish at once," said Partington, his face wreathing with smiles.

Afterwards, when the crape had worn a bit brown, I saw it was jealousy of any other female I might come to cast my eye over as made her act like that." "A private sore!" William commented. "To tell you gospel truth, Partington, I guessed as much. But you should learn to tike the larger view. Blimey, you should rise above that.

And now, dost thou not think that I owe my charmer some revenge for her cruelty in obliging such a fine young creature, and so vast a fortune, as Miss Partington, to crowd into a press-bed with Dorcas the maid-servant of the proud refuser? Sinclair, that would Mrs. Lovelace do her the honour of a visit at Barnet, the best bed and best room in her guardian's house should be at her service.

The stories I like best are Bolivar Wiggins's story about 'Solemn Sophy' and his other one about 'Bertie's Balloon. Have you any more stories by him? I must close now, so good-bye. Your cow is beautiful, and perhaps some day it will appear in this column. Watch carefully, and maybe you will see it. "Ah!" said Partington, softly, as he read these effusions.

But burn or no burn, I tell you it felt good. By the time we arrived in Oakland I was as limber and strong as ever, though Charley and Neil Partington were afraid I was going to have pneumonia, and Mrs. Partington, for my first six months of school, kept an anxious eye upon me to discover the first symptoms of consumption. Time flies.

Charley, who was steering, seemed to have an instinct for that kind of work. How he did it, he himself confessed that he did not know; but he had a way of calculating winds, currents, distance, time, drift, and sailing speed that was truly marvellous. "It looks as though it were lifting," Neil Partington said, a couple of hours after we had entered the fog. "Where do you say we are, Charley?"

Partington remembered afterwards was that she found herself standing on the landing upstairs, listening, yet afraid to move. All was very nearly silent within: there was just low talking, and the sound of something being moved. It was her husband's voice that she heard. Beyond her the stairs ran up to the next story, and she became aware presently that someone else was watching, too.

In the latter city he made the acquaintance of Shilaber, Ben Perley Poore, Halpine, and others, and tried his hand as a "sketchist" for a volume edited by Mrs. Partington. His early effusions bore the signature of "Chub." From the Hub he emigrated to the West. At Toledo, Ohio, he worked as a "typo" and later as a "local" on a Toledo newspaper.

Taft upon his train to San Francisco. Not only did Neil Partington interpose no obstacle to our adventure, but he proved to be of the greatest assistance. Charley and I knew nothing of the oyster industry, while his head was an encyclopaedia of facts concerning it.

Partington beating back the tidal waves with a mop. It was they, too, who were at extraordinary pains and risked their prestige, to throw away the splendid privileged position which, at the outset of the struggle, we chanced to occupy in South-Eastern Europe.

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