Show after lone long absence after an absence of 10 years koy page returned to his native village lie ile walked slowly by the brown house where he used to live he ile scarcely recognized it now for it had been painted red and the two elms near the door had been cut down strangers were looking out of the windows lie ile called on his old friend friends one by one impatient to recci receive va their erecting greetings the minister did not riot know him hint at first then lie sidd what it chancel you must have prospered you look 10 years younger than when you went away roy hoy lie allied on the grocer who said sol 1 I can hardly believe it la Is you yo you t must have buffered suffered you look 20 years older thau thitu when yon you left ill hoy lie ile met in the farmer hale who did not stop hoy cried im hoy mhd lived with you all one summerill eum meri the fanner blared stared at him awhile and said maybe you are but youve changed a it right good bit you weigh 50 pounds more than when you lived here hoy ilor he ile called on the lawyer who after putting on his lis spectacles said yes yea yes I 1 have it faint recollection of you but how thin and lank you have brownl he ile saw hitched bitched to a post tn in the street the old white borso horse which hia tits family used to own and will which 0 h he lie had fed fell eo so often that it at t the soun sound 1 of his footsteps the borso would neigh for the tile expected hay or oata oam roy went up to I 1 ills its old friend Theli the horse orso ate stepped p d back us as from a it stranger ro roy y sadder saddened lod by fly changes everywhere suddenly met face to face a it little old man who at once grasped his hand warmly and said roy boy old toy boy bow how natural you look you changed it bit I 1 should have tare known you in china theft you borrowed from front me tile 10 years ago go would you have the kindness could you oblige me now youths companion |