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Sketches New and Old

CHAPTER V
8/94

After an accident the company sent home the remains of a dear distant old relative of mine in a basket, with the remark, "Please state what figure you hold him at--and return the basket." Now there couldn't be anything friendlier than that.
But I must not stand here and brag all night.

However, you won't mind a body bragging a little about his country on the fourth of July.

It is a fair and legitimate time to fly the eagle.

I will say only one more word of brag--and a hopeful one.

It is this.


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