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THE COUNTRY BOY
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they looked like the pictures, and they said, “Just exactly, only finer.” I was astonished to hear that the others had all taken theirs and left only one for me to choose from. I had never

seen uniforms, only in catalogues, and once at a circus, and never had had any on except I wore once Father’s Good Templar Lodge regalia for a few minutes. They had come in a big box, and this one suit and cap was all that was