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A Man for the Ages

CHAPTER III
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What a heaven it is when the flames are leaping! Here is Hogarth's line of beauty; nothing perpendicular or horizontal." He took Abe's hand and went on: "Here, ye lovers of romance, is one of the story-tellers of Ispahan who has in him the wisdom of the wandering tribes.

He can tell you a tale that will draw children from their play and old men from the chimney corner.

My boy, take a chair next to Mr.
Traylor." He took the hand of the Doctor and added: "Here, too, is a man whose wit is more famous than his pills--one produces the shakes and the other cures them.

Doctor, you and I will take the end seats." "My pills can be relied upon but my wit is like my dog, away from home most of the time," said the Doctor.
"Gathering the bones with which you often astonish us," said Kelso.

"How are the lungs, Doctor ?" "They're all right.


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