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feel so lonely, so deserted ; not one remains." But the 

 Queen was equal to the emergency. " Oh, you don't 

 count me, then ! You have still one that sticks to you." 

 Oh, yes, indeed, sure o f that, old lady. 



"The good book tells of one 



Who sticks closer than a brother; 

 But who will dare to say there's one 

 Sticks closer than a mother ! " 



(Original poetry for the occasion.) 



These horrid partings again ; but whatever the future 

 has in store for those who made the excursion recorded 

 here, I think I can safely say that they could not wish 

 their dearest friend a happier life than that led from 

 June 1st to August 24th by the Gay Charioteers. 



Those who have mounted the coach become, as it 

 were, by virtue of that act members of an inner circle ; 

 a band of union knits them closely together. To a hun- 

 dred dear, kind friends in the Beautiful Land we send 

 thanks and greeting. Their kindness to us can never be 

 forgotten, for they soon taught us to feel that it was not 

 a foreign land which we had visited after all, but the 

 dear old home of our fathers. 



Forever and ever may the parent land and the child 

 land grow fonder and fonder of each other, and their 

 people mingle more and more till they become as one 

 and the same. All good educated Americans love Eng- 

 land, for they know that she alone among the nations 



of the world 

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