And Ah'm so much oblahged, Mr.Fulkerson.Ah jost know it's all you' doing, and it will give papa a chance to toak to some new people, and get away from us evahlastin' women for once." "I don't see why any one should want to do that," said Fulkerson, with grateful gallantry.

"But I'll be dogged," he said to March when he told him about this odd experience, "if I ever expected to find Colonel Woodburn on old Lindau's ground.

He did come round handsomely this morning at breakfast and apologized for taking time to think the invitation over before he accepted.

'You understand,' he says, 'that if it had been to the table of some friend not so prosperous as Mr.
Dryfoos--your friend Mr.March, for instance--it would have been sufficient to know that he was your friend.

But in these days it is a duty that a gentleman owes himself to consider whether he wishes to know a rich man or not.