If you'll please to remember, it's a long way from Illinois to New York, and curious strangers are not scarce on the journey.

When one is obliged to keep on saying the same thing over and over again, a form saves a deal of trouble.

I have made a form for myself--which is respectfully at the disposal of any person who does me the honour to wish for my acquaintance.

Will that do, sir?
Very well, then; shake hands, to show you're satisfied." Mr.Hethcote shook hands, more than satisfied.

He found it impossible to resist the bright honest brown eyes, the simple winning cordial manner of the young fellow with the quaint formula and the strange name.