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230 duty as a private carriage. We see business men come to the front door, step into a gondola, instead of a street car, and go off down town to the counting-room.

We see visiting young ladies stand on the stoop, and laugh, and kiss good-bye, and flirt their fans and say “Come soon—now do—you’ve been just as mean as ever you can be—mother’s dying to see you—and we’ve moved into the new house, O such a love of a place!—so convenient to the post-office and the church, and the Young Men’s Christian Association; and we do have such fishing, and such carrying on,