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[IBook of Friends: May it include the wise, the witty and the shrewd, )
And such (IS own the double art, that makes them Mends 01.he~d.?nd heart.
May those who stand recorded here trow dearer with each added year;
Acquaintance into frient/ship grow, 4nd friendship ever brighter glow.
Old friends are best, we lightly say-but, as they fall upo~ the way, )1

Keep full the ranks with newer friends, till time the adjective amends.

And if old friends still seem the best, thB adage should be thus expressed:' f

Friends are not best because they're ~ld, but old, becaus« the years that rolled'- 'i'

The years that try, and mar and mend, haveprofJed them worth the title friend.

-So WEIR MITCHELL.

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