A CHERRY-STONE SOUVENIR 



them as scarf-pins, vended them at eighteenpence 

 apiece as souvenirs of the occasion ; at which 

 price they went like hot cakes. Who after this 

 could doubt the loyalty of the show yard English- 

 man, or the enterprise and ingenuity of that 

 Guildf ord Ganymede ! I have often wondered 

 what was his after-career, for the resourcefulness 

 which suggested such an adaptation of means to 

 an end gave promise of a great future. In these 

 latter days, when we are finding a use for all 

 manner of, hitherto, waste products, his fertile 

 brain would be an invaluable asset. With such 

 a gift for making the most of anything, he might 

 be expected to get blood out of a stone, or extract 

 sunbeams from cucumbers. 



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