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 "Who'll live here with you in this big house, first Uncle Joe?"

"Oh, I suppose my colored 'boys' only; as before you came," was his low-toned answer.

"Nobody else?" she continued, in tones equally low.

He sighed: "Who else could, lassie?"

"Why, me! He's got so many, and it's only across the square. And Red Kimono, who's your own cousin, you know. Shall we?"

"If you will, darling," answered the old man, with moistened eyes.

"Then when papa and mamma come back from that far off red-pickley country maybe they'd be glad to stay, too. Can't 'lectrickellers find places to earn money in this Baltimore, Uncle Joe?"

"Be sure that your Uncle Joe and I will find your electrician a fine place, little one; and we'll call Red Kimono by her real name, Cousin Desire, because she was my mother's twin sister's child; and we'll send for big