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that I might present a little more respectable appearance when I called on my old patients to try to collect some of my old bills. Please to give me something.”

But he had no money. He would pay for the overcoat; I might tell the tailor so; and afterwards he gave me a pair of boots and an old shirt. This was the fruit which my “blossom” of years before brought at last. I saw Mrs. Blaisdell, but she said she could do


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that I might present a little more respectable appearance when I called on my old patients to try to collect some of my old bills. Please to give me something.”

But he had no money. He would pay for the overcoat; I might tell the tailor so; and afterwards he gave me a pair of boots and an old shirt. This was the fruit which my “blossom” of years before brought at last. I saw Mrs. Blaisdell, but she said she could do


337 of 497