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CHAPTER II.
THE OLD UMBRELLA.

s‘T strikes me, that Johnny’s
granny would not have
been so very shocked as May
supposed, if she had heard that he

could not remember her; for, you

  

see, a whole year was a good piece
out of his little life—a larger piece
than it was out of May’s—at least,
in one way; for she, having lived
longer, her life would cut up into
more of such pieces than his would.