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Miss Brown completed her term, and then the minister, who was on the
local Board, was called in to formally make her tutor for life to a
larger pupil. Lecomte, with true French gallantry, insisted on being
groomsman, and the judge gave away the bride. The groom, who gave a name
very different from any ever heard at the Flat, placed on his bride's
finger a ring, inscribed within, "Made from gold washed by Huldah
Brown." The little teacher has increased the number of her pupils by
several, and her latest one calls her grandma.

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JIM HOCKSON'S REVENGE.


I.

"Ye don't say?"

"I do though."

"Wa'al, I never."

"Nuther did I--adzackly."

"Don't be provokin', Ephr'm--what makes you talk in that dou'fle way?"