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rising, always falling, and finding at every step that his miserable life fails to harmonize with the needs and requirements of this sordid world.

God bless Elmo, and may this late education not prove in vain.

Your loving boy,

Jewell.

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"mother of the Gracchi."

By this name all knew her. She relied on her "two jewels", as she called them, to bring to her the felicity and comfort which she rightly deserved. Their perils were hers, their tribulations were hers, and at last with them she shared their success.

She is still known to every reader; she has been admired