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 himself than he began to treat him with open contempt, slowly bringing up his eyeglass and inspecting him with cold hauteur whenever he happened to come in sight.

"That there helephant," Briggs complained to me, "do treat me most harrogant, sir. I didn't never expect to come to this 'ere."

I spoke to Ulysses about the matter, and remonstrated with him.

"I cannot understand it," he wrote in reply. "I