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people using it, but it does not exactly touch the chord 

 of my understanding in many ways) who would make 

 a dollar where others could not make the fraction of one 

 cent, but in intellectual affairs are quite green although 

 with white hair. I just remember a very pleasant in- 

 stance to illustrate what I have said above. 



Once I had a correspondent in New York to whom 

 I wrote that since I had seen him, I had seen two of 

 his friends. Both are now dead; both were or had the 

 reputation of being smart, but one was smarter; he 

 had much more money than the other, and of course 

 was superior and perhaps he was really so ! Both came 

 to pay me a friendly f f visit ; for what I did not 

 know. They were both antipathetic to me as I was to 

 them, in a measure. I had absolutely nothing to in- 

 terest them for one was almost physically Hind and the 

 other only morally so, but both had what you call a 

 "fellow-feeling" both were well matched. I felt like 

 to ask them what the devil has induced you to come 

 and see me ? But according to what I have told you 

 supra I did not ; on the contrary, as it was a warm 

 day, I offered them refreshment. They did not accept. 

 So far all right. They thanked me and I went away. 

 It was the same day I wrote to my correspondent the 

 word "subrosa" not to mention the above "pane- 

 gyric of his friend above." He could not very well 



