Now go and take a walk round the Common and let me stay with your father." Miss Quincy went out and the old man kept Dr.Ellis so full of interest by his cheerful and lively talk that he never once thought to ask him how he was getting along.

When Miss Quincy returned, he took his leave and had got downstairs when the omission occurred to him.

He went back to the chamber and said to Mr.Quincy: "I forgot to ask you how your leg is." The old fellow brought his hand down with a slap upon the limb and said: "Damn the leg.

I want to see this business settled." When Felton was inaugurated as President, Gov.

Banks in performing his part of the ceremony of presenting the charter and the keys to the new officer alluded in his somewhat grandiloquent way to four of Felton's predecessors, Everett, Sparks, Walker and Quincy, who were upon the stage.