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what the attraction was in those poor chil-
dren.

“T could not have believed it, in England,
that the poor were so well educated in this
country,” thought Howard Framingham ; “ it
is not education alone :—there is something
that I cannot understand in that free, un-
daunted Yankee, with his rough, cordial, kind
manners. I like him.”