[The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Guardian Angel

CHAPTER V
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If Mr.
Gridley would be so good as to find her some kind of a real handsome Chris'n name for 'em, she'd provide 'em with the other one.

Hopkinses they shall be bred and taught, and Hopkinses they shall be called.

Ef their father and mother was ashamed to own 'em, she was n't.

Couldn't Mr.Gridley pick out some pooty sounding names from some of them great books of his.

It's jest as well to have 'em pooty as long as they don't cost any more than if they was Tom and Sally.
A grim smile passed over the rugged features of Byles Gridley.


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