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56 Honor the dead with the richest oblation,—
 * Cover their graves with laurel and palm!

Honor the living for life's consecration,—
 * Give to their pierced hearts love's healing balm.

Mary Bassett Hussey.

WHEN GREEK MET GREEK. here? Yes, come from Varmount,
 * Rutland County. You've hearn tell,

Mebbe, of the town of Granville?
 * You born there? No! Sho! Well, well!

You was born at Granville, was you?
 * Then you know Elisha Brown,

Him as runs the old meat-market
 * At the lower end of town?

Well, well, well! Born down in Granville,
 * And out here, so far away!

Stranger, I'm homesick already,
 * Though it's but a week to-day

Since I left my good wife standin'
 * Out there at the kitchen-door,

Sayin' she'd ask God to keep me,
 * And her eyes were runnin' o'er.

You must know old Albert Withers,
 * Henry Bull, and Ambrose Cole?

Know them all! And born in Granville?
 * Well, well, well! God bless my soul!

Sho! You're not old Isaac's nephew,
 * Isaac Green, down on the flat,

Isaac's oldest nephew,—Henry?
 * Well, I'd never thought of that!

Have I got a hundred dollars
 * I could loan you for a minute,

Till you buy a horse at Marcy's?
 * There's my wallet,—just that in it.

Hold on, though! You have ten, mebbe,
 * You could let me keep; you see,

I might chance to need a little
 * Betwixt now and half-past three.

Ten. That's it; you'll owe me ninety;
 * Bring it round to the hotel.