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Show It Made a Great Difference. Undo Jnred and Undo Benjamin mado a sorry pair. Truo, thero was blood on Undo Ucnjamln's forehead, and ho looked whlto nnd faint. Iftit Undo Jnred, who tried to support him, walked with a very pronounced limp, dlsplacd only ono conttall where two i should havo been, and was rumpled nnd bedraggled generally In a way to f suggest pnrtlclpntlon In a riot. "What's happened to you?" asked a townsman. "That pesky colt of Benjamin's run away and throw ed him Just as I camo along," Undo Jnred answered. "I'm giving him n lift along toward homo." "Look ns though ou needed ono oursclf," pionounced tho Inquisitor. "Whnt's been hnppenln' to ou?" "Who, mo? Why, nothln' to speak of Just been to town to seo tho big procession. Got moro or loss bustled round nnd tromped on, but " Ho stoopod pnlnfully to adjust a shoo which had been ripped open so thnt hnlf of tho upper flapped as ho walked. walk-ed. "Don't see much dlfferenco betwixt yo, Judgln' by tho displny o' wreck-ago," wreck-ago," tho nolghbor persisted "Thero'H consldor'blo difference, I take it," Undo Jarcd aosv orcd, with concluslvo dignity. "Benjamin's met with nn neddent, but I'vo been pleas-urln'." pleas-urln'." Youth's Companion. |