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upon his heels, his enthusiasm will in a measure abate, and the more 

 he has buffeted with the rude waves of the world, the greater will be 

 his desire to cast anchor in some quiet haven, which he may regard 

 as a permanent home in declining years. For how truly has Sam 

 Slick described the dark side of the wanderer's life in the following 

 words : " Here to-day, gone to-morrow, to know folks but to forget 

 them, to love folks but to part with them to come without pleasure, 

 to go without pain and at last for a last will come to every story 

 still no home." Never, perhaps, was the history of a life written 

 in so short a sentence. 



THE END. 



