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to Bahia next year. The master drinks and the first assistant lies. But we live in that district; so the boys have to go there.
Tom got through with scarlet Lucy said "commence" yesterday, fever without being deaf. Jane said "gent," Walter said "Bully for you," and Alice said "nobby." And what is coming we do not know.
Dr. Witherspoon has accepted How long any man can live the presidency of Tiberias under this government I do College in Alaska. not know.
FELIX AND FAUSTA CARTER
GOOD. EVIL.
Governments are stronger But as the children grow every year. Money goes farther bigger, their clothes cost than it did. more.
All the boys are good and But the children get no well. So are the girls. good at school, except They are splendid children. measles, whooping-cough, and scarlet fever.
Old Mr. Porter died last But the gas-meter lies; week, and Felix gets promotion and the gas company wants to in the office. have it lie.
The lost volume of Fichte But the Athenaeum is always was left on the door-step last calling in its books to examine night by some one who rang the them, and making us say where bell and ran away. It is rather Mr. Fred Curtis's books are. wet, but when it is bound will As if we cared. look nicely.
The mistress of the Arbella But our drains smell School is dead. awfully, though the Board of Health says they do not.
We have to go to evening parties among our friends, or seem stuck up. We hate to go, and wish there were none. We had rather come here.
The increasing worthlessness of the franchise.
With these papers they gathered all in the study just as the clock struck nine, and, in good old Boston fashion, Silas was bringing in some hot oysters. They ate the oysters, which were good--trust Anna for that-- and then the women read the papers, while the smoking men smoked and pondered.
They all recognized the gravity of the situation. Still, as Julia said, they felt better already. It was like having the doctor come: you knew the worst, and could make ready for it.
They did not discuss the statements much. They had discussed them too much in severalty. They did agree that they should be left to Felix to report upon the next evening. He was, so to speak, to post them, to strike out from each side the quantities which could be eliminated, and leave the equations so simplified that the eight might determine what they should do about it-- indeed, what they could do about it.
The visitors put on their "things"--how strange that that word should once have meant "parliaments!"--kissed good-by so far as they were womanly, and went home. George Haliburton screwed down the gas, and they went to bed.
CHAPTER II
STRIKING THE BALANCE
The next night they went to see Warren at the Museum. That probably helped them. After the play they met by appointment at the Carters'. Felix read his
REPORT.
1. NUMBER.--There are twenty-one reasons for congratulation, twenty-four for regret. But of the twenty-four, four are the same; namely, the cursed political prospect of the country. Counting that as one only, there are twenty-one on each side.
2. EVIL.--The twenty-one evils may be classified thus: political, 1; social, 12; physical, 5; terrors, 3.
All the physical evils would be relieved by living in a temperate climate, instead of
Tom got through with scarlet Lucy said "commence" yesterday, fever without being deaf. Jane said "gent," Walter said "Bully for you," and Alice said "nobby." And what is coming we do not know.
Dr. Witherspoon has accepted How long any man can live the presidency of Tiberias under this government I do College in Alaska. not know.
FELIX AND FAUSTA CARTER
GOOD. EVIL.
Governments are stronger But as the children grow every year. Money goes farther bigger, their clothes cost than it did. more.
All the boys are good and But the children get no well. So are the girls. good at school, except They are splendid children. measles, whooping-cough, and scarlet fever.
Old Mr. Porter died last But the gas-meter lies; week, and Felix gets promotion and the gas company wants to in the office. have it lie.
The lost volume of Fichte But the Athenaeum is always was left on the door-step last calling in its books to examine night by some one who rang the them, and making us say where bell and ran away. It is rather Mr. Fred Curtis's books are. wet, but when it is bound will As if we cared. look nicely.
The mistress of the Arbella But our drains smell School is dead. awfully, though the Board of Health says they do not.
We have to go to evening parties among our friends, or seem stuck up. We hate to go, and wish there were none. We had rather come here.
The increasing worthlessness of the franchise.
With these papers they gathered all in the study just as the clock struck nine, and, in good old Boston fashion, Silas was bringing in some hot oysters. They ate the oysters, which were good--trust Anna for that-- and then the women read the papers, while the smoking men smoked and pondered.
They all recognized the gravity of the situation. Still, as Julia said, they felt better already. It was like having the doctor come: you knew the worst, and could make ready for it.
They did not discuss the statements much. They had discussed them too much in severalty. They did agree that they should be left to Felix to report upon the next evening. He was, so to speak, to post them, to strike out from each side the quantities which could be eliminated, and leave the equations so simplified that the eight might determine what they should do about it-- indeed, what they could do about it.
The visitors put on their "things"--how strange that that word should once have meant "parliaments!"--kissed good-by so far as they were womanly, and went home. George Haliburton screwed down the gas, and they went to bed.
CHAPTER II
STRIKING THE BALANCE
The next night they went to see Warren at the Museum. That probably helped them. After the play they met by appointment at the Carters'. Felix read his
REPORT.
1. NUMBER.--There are twenty-one reasons for congratulation, twenty-four for regret. But of the twenty-four, four are the same; namely, the cursed political prospect of the country. Counting that as one only, there are twenty-one on each side.
2. EVIL.--The twenty-one evils may be classified thus: political, 1; social, 12; physical, 5; terrors, 3.
All the physical evils would be relieved by living in a temperate climate, instead of