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apartment on a little trot that showed 

 more motion than speed, while Seth be- 

 gan to busily arrange his desk to do as his 

 friend had requested shut it down. 



A merry trio these three men, Brad- 

 ley, Fielding, and Corbin two of them 

 medical doctors, Dr. Bradley in New 

 York and Dr. Corbin in Brooklyn, while 

 Seth engaged in literary work and kept 

 up an establishment on Broadway his 

 " den " he called it that was famous as 

 a headquarters for the shining lights of 

 the day in the world of letters and sports- 

 manship. 



Seth was supposed to do his writing 

 and sketching in the den, but there 

 seemed never to be anything going on 

 there day or night except a constant prat- 

 tle about guns, and dogs, and books, and 

 pictures, and horses between the merriest 

 sort of men, of all ages and character; 

 and instead of resembling an author's den, 

 further than to include a great skylight 

 and innumerable pictures, rough sketches, 



