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MY LIFE IN TWO HEMISPHERES

romances and reviews, was at an end, and the serious business of life had begun. I quoted laughingly to my dear mother the ordinary opening of Folk Lore stories which she was accustomed to tell me.

"Bake me a bonnock, mother, and cut me a collop, I'm going to push my fortune."