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LONELY O'MALLEY

doubts as to that dictum, though he had often enough heard it fall from the lips of his father. Even at that moment he was longing and aching to be able to cipher out to the uttermost the descriptive superlatives which bordered so mysteriously the circus bill before him. But the big words stuck him, every time.

WHY AIN'T YOU A-GITTIN' SOME SCHOOLIN'?