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Show EVERYBODY HAS MET HIM. ! The melancholy man lookV d more than usually downcast so depressed, in fa t, that one of his ac- QUaintanceg WAS rnsb rmmicrVi fn aoV Tii-m urm Ttroa the matter. ' "Oh, everything," replied t tie melancholy man. "Market been against you i" "No-o, not exactly," was tl e rejoinder, 'Taut I'm considerably worried over wh it may happen next week." "Sickness at home?" "Not yet," replied the melr ncholy man, "though I'm afraid that I'm getting 1 Adj for my regular touch of malaria about .this t; me of year." "Forewarned is forearmed '' returned the other with as much cheerfulness as he could summon up under the circumstances. "I . ee ; some one of your friends is in trouble, and it 3 preying on your mind." "Friends?" sniffed the me ancholy man-"Much good it would do my friends i f I gave them advice. Think of them? Of course I do, but for all the benefit they derive from wha I tell them I might as well never give them any t loughts at all." "Well, what in thunder is it?" asked the other, coming back to first principl s. "Oh, everything," replied the melancholy man as he despondently turned aw, ;y. |