Motherless Babies 41 



many years, he had a secret hope that every 

 crowd started by an evangelist for the everlasting 

 burning, was headed by this enormously fat Doc- 

 tor, who would have burned grandly; and when 

 the small boy not only a man himself, but one 

 growing old, encountered old Dr. Coffee, deafer 

 than an adder, and boarding at a hotel, because 

 he was too ugly to live with his children, and 

 actually feeing the night-clerk, every night, to pull 

 him out of bed in case of a fire alarm that he 

 would never hear, he not only was not sorry but 

 he grinned from ear to ear, still remembering 

 the doves. 



