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.'" And in a moment the pair were in hot pursuit after the quotation, tripping each other up like two schoolboys at a game.

Taffy never forgot the final stanza, the last line of which they recovered exactly in the middle of the street, Velvet-cap standing between two tram-lines, right in the path of an advancing car, while he declaimed-- "'By penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In praise--'" (The gesture was magnificent) "'In praise we nobly give what God may take, And are without a beggar's blush forgiven.' "-- Confound these trams!" The old clergyman shook hands with Taffy in some haste.

"And when you reach home give my respects to your father.