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ND how's Anson gittin' along?" asked Miss Grig, the proprietor of the thread and-needle store next door, as she payed for the new glass in her spectacles. "I've hear'n tell's how he was makin' quite a success of his doctorin'."

Mr. Bennett's face dropped its business expression and took on a genial look of complacence.

"Oh, Anson! He's doin' a great business. He's cuttin' out the allopaths right an' left. Reglars, they call themselves, and my wife says that's all right, for most on 'em's reglar old Betties! Why, Anson's got the best part of the practice in that country for miles round!"

"Well! It doos beat all, I must say, that a young man brought up to the spectacle trade should suddenly perk up and know so much 'bout folks' insides. I s'pose now, homepathic means home-made or somethin' of the kind."

"Like's not," replied the proud father. "I always said the doctors round here might learn a thing or two of Mis' Bennett. She comes of an