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Well, here comes the" Kid." He claims to he from the county scat of Caroline, but I have beard on good authority that be is from T~uckahoe Xeck, though r can't tel! you where that is. However, he has been in our midst four years, and by this time we know the Kid pretty well, even if we don't know where he is from. The first year he led the class in scholarship, and each year since he has ranked as a star member. But his r-eputa tion rests chiefly upon his power to transform the impossible into the plausible and relate it with ;111 air of frank sincerity. In this eo.nsummate art the light of Vl unchausen pales and flickers before the glowing renown of Wilson Saulsbury. Mournful, how mournful, to think that sucb a disease should have germinated in so vouch- ful and so brilliant a mind. - Sleep is a favorite pastime with him, and he is 111ing thickly threaded with gray, and his straight military form is losing just a little of its old-time erectness. Chief among- these is the 30
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