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brush against another, while he whistled
softly the refrain of a street song—one of
those that popularize music to the million. -

“ Has Mrs. Livermore been long gone to
the bad?” she inquired. ;

‘““ Well, some time,” he replied; «“ there’s
score of ’em down ‘Westminster ; they begin
with a thimble full, mother says, and end
—well, I don’t like to think how they end;
but the women are worse than the men!
They don’t seem, mother says, to have the :
strength to overcome it, when once the
love of the drink takes holt of ’em.”

Mary entered the park, crossed over and
turned down by the water, while her old
friend ,trotted on with her basket. She
passed Mr. Martin’s chapel and the alms-
houses, and on the same side of the way
saw Nelly Livermore and another young
girl talking over and arranging a couple .

of baskets of nuts and apples, at the corner