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Updated: May 9, 2025
Tucker, he's the boss." The young man spoke as if answering the questions about Mr. Topoff had become a burden to him, and if that honest hardware man had been dead long I didn't blame the boy for getting tired of him. Mr. Tucker had been studiously keeping his back toward me, as if I was to expect no encouragement from him, but he turned when I spoke his name and I introduced myself.
"John Topoff" was the name over the door, so I went in, carefully noticing the stock, the way it was arranged, and the amount, in order to get some idea of the kind of man the owner was. "Is Mr. Topoff in?" I asked a young man who was blacking stoves and who I was sure was not the man I wanted. "Naw," he said, as he brushed away. "Will he be in soon?" "Naw, he's dead. There's Mr.
'Top Off, said the Cat drily. 'Topoff! echoed the Mouse, 'it is indeed a wonderful and curious name. Is it in your family? 'What is there odd about it? said the Cat. 'It is not worse than Breadthief, as your godchild is called. Not long after this another great longing came over the Cat.
'All good things in threes, she said to the Mouse; 'I have again to stand godmother. The child is quite black, and has very white paws, but not a single white hair on its body. This only happens once in two years, so you will let me go out? 'Topoff! Halfgone! repeated the Mouse, 'they are such curious names; they make me very thoughtful.
It was wonderful to realise that in the old life one met every day great world figures like Prince Rasselwitz-Windischkopf, the Grand Falconer of Reuss, and the Grand Duke of Schlitzin-Mein, and Field Marshall Topoff, General-in-Chief of the army of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. There are no such figures as these in America.
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