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THE COUNTRY BOY 



looked determined. It was awful; our tears 

 were all over us, in fact our feet were getting 

 damp from them. We broke heavier in each 

 act, till the father of the fine looking man she 



wanted to marry asked her, if she really loved 

 his son, to prove it by promising never to see 

 him again, and at that Adda collapsed com- 

 pletely and neither of us could make a sound. 

 I turned one of my coat pockets wrong side 



