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Jo’s Boys

CHAPTER 4
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Come along as surgeon--easy berth, and no end of larks.' '"And if your Nancy frowns, my lad, And scorns a jacket blue, Just hoist your sails for other ports, And find a maid more true."' added Emil, who had a fragment of song to cheer every care and sorrow, and freely offered them to his friends.
'Perhaps I'll think of it when I've got my diploma.

I'm not going to grind three mortal years and have nothing to show for it.

Till then,--' 'I'll never desert Mrs Micawber,' interrupted Teddy, with a gurgling sob.

Tom immediately rolled him off the step into the wet grass below; and by the time this slight skirmish was over, the jingle of teaspoons suggested refreshments of a more agreeable sort.

In former times the little girls waited on the boys, to save confusion; now the young men flew to serve the ladies, young and old; and that slight fact showed plainly how the tables were turned by time.


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