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Upon her heels was Mr Stott, in clothes which bore mute testimony to the fact that he led a sedentary life Mr Stott was a "jiner" for business purposes and he earing all his lodge pins in the expectation of obtaining special privileges fro wore a "blazer" and a pair of mountain boots that had involved him in a quarrel with a Pull a plush seat with the hob-nails At his wife's request, Mr Budlong was bringing a canvas telescope filled with a variety of tinned fruits It was so heavy that it sagged from the handle as he bore it in front of him with both hands, so no one was deceived by his heroic efforts to carry it jauntily and ht

The only stranger in the party was Mrs Henry Appel's maiden aunt--Miss Lizzie Philbrick--sixty or thereabouts "Aunt Lizzie" was a refugee from the City of Mexico, and had left that troublesoht little besides a bundle of the reports of a Humane Society hich she had been identified, and an onyx apple, to which it was assumed there was much sentie car, and was carrying it in her hand

"Aunt Lizzie" looked as if she had been cast for a period play--early General Grant, perhaps--as she descended wearing a beaded silk s

"Be careful, Aunt Lizzie! Look where you step!"

The chorus of warnings was due to the fact that Aunt Lizzie already had fallen fourteen ti sufficient to trip her up, and now, quite as though they had shouted the reverse, Aunt Lizzie stumbled and dropped the onyx apple upon old Mr Penrose's felt-shod foot

This was too much Mr Penrose shouted furiously: "I wish you'd lose that da!"

When it came to altered looks, Wallie had no monopoly on surprise The Happy Fa young man with the nice, neat boy who had blown them kisses from the motor bus

"Nohat sort of a conveyance have you provided?" inquired Mr Stott, who had taken the initiative in such e-coach with Pinkey on the box and Mr Tucker standing faithfully at the leaders' heads

Everybody exclai Pinkey, whose response was cordial but brief To Wallie he said, out of the corner of his ittin' a hump in his back"