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DICK MEETS HIS FATHER.
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'The world's a very sensible feller on things in jineral, Dick; a very sensible party indeed.'

Dick looked into the distance at a vast expanse of mortgaged estate. 'I wish I was as rich as a lord when he's as poor as a crow,' he murmured; 'I'd soon ask Fancy something.'

'I wish so too, wi' all my heart, sonny; that I do. Well, mind what beest about, that's all.'

Smart moved a step or two. 'Supposing now, father—We-hey, Smart!—I did think a little about her, and I had a chance, which I ha'n't; don't you think she's a very good sort of—of—one?'

'Ay, good; she's good enough. When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand—she's as good as any other; they be all alike in the groundwork: 'tis only in the

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