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Show I FIRST AST0R AND THn POET. Halleck't Humorous Or-rvatlon In pressed Wealthy ,dan. John Jscob Alloc and bli ton rigidly rigid-ly attended to business In th sain office-a little one story building In Prince street. Just east of Broadway. Their constant companion there waa tlttfirecne llalleck- Marco Uoiiarla llalleck llalleck became a clerk for Aator In HI! and worked seventeen years The employment, be hlmtelf eald. wss not "profitable but permanent" perma-nent" Aitor warned him when he began not to talk to anono of hl wealth The two men became steal , friends, llalleck apent month 1 with hli patron at lilt country seat and he-cam he-cam one of the trmteea of the Aator Aa-tor lI'Mry. The poet frequently rallied ral-lied the old man on bla wealth. "Why, Mr. Aator. ' be would aay, "It I had JMO a year and waa cure of It I would be content" The treat landowner took him at till word, and In nil will, much to the iimuiement of Ilohcmtan Now York. Ift llalleck an annuity of ttOO Burton J. llrndrlck In Mo-Clure's. |