Yes, ladies and gents, bones, of which there is one hundred and ninety-eight in the full grown human skeleton, composed of four-fifths inorganic and one-fifth organic matter." "How dreadful!" exclaimed Mrs.Weaver, who, being a doctor's wife, had a particular dislike for bones, as for useless things that cluttered up the house, and were not ornamental.

"But how come you to get wrecked ?" "Five years ago," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "I was a confidence man in New York.

New York is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere; population estimated over three million; located on the island of Manhattan, at the mouth of the Hudson River.

And, if I do say it myself, I was a good confidence man.

I was a success; I got rich.