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making of the chain involved a great deal of patient 

 labor and it was skillfully done. He has also a 

 French sword-blade, of fine temper, plowed up in 

 Minnesota; a sixty-dollar piece of Continental 

 money, paid to his grandfather for service in the 

 Revolution ; and a number of such heirlooms. Mrs. 

 Young has some very old chinaware, which she 

 prizes highly. Most of us have little memories of 

 sad or of tender events in our own lives, which mean 

 much to us as husbands, wives, children, or parents, 

 but which mean nothing to others. To me they are 

 evidence of an instinctive knowledge of immortality. 

 Why would we cling to such mementoes but because 

 we instinctively refuse to believe that anything 

 human can perish — why but because they are re- 

 minders of the absent and inaccessible but living? 



In stepping out of the elevator, which was a 

 little too high for the door, I struck my head pretty 

 severely, on the lintel above. A pretty miss, of ten, 

 perhaps, was greatly concerned for me. She fol- 

 lowed me out, saying she was sorry for me. She 

 told me to take a silver dollar and bind it on the 

 hurt, and that would prevent it from swelling. 



"But where shall I get the dollar?" 



"Oh, I have one; I will run and get it for you." 



I said "Wait a minute," while I searched my 

 pockets, finding one. 



"Now," I said, "I think I know an improvement 

 on this dollar cure." 



"Oh, if you do I wish you would tell mc." 



