THE COUNTRY BOY 



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and half of the 

 young fellows 

 in the band got 

 married that 

 winter, while the 

 gilt braid av a s 

 yet new, and be- 

 fore the moth 

 holes that were 

 in most of them 

 got together. 

 Our prices 

 j u m 13 e d from 

 thirty up to 

 fifty, and you 

 still c a me and 

 got us, and 

 brought as many 

 of us away from 

 the celebration as you could find. 



There was but one Democrat in Silverton, 

 and he was one in every sense of the word. He 

 hadn't said much for years — just paid his bets 

 regularly every four years without much back 

 talk — but that fall when Grover Cleveland 

 was elected for the first time Jake JNIcClaine's 



