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Excerpt from Atlantic Tales: A Collection of Stories From the Atlantic Monthly
Oh, the fun we had the next morning in shaving his beard to my pattern, cutting his hair to match mine, and teaching him how to wear and how to take off gold-bowed Spectacles! Really, they were electro-plate and the glass was plain (for the poor fellow's eyes were excellent). Then in four suc cessive afternoons I taught him four speeches. I had found these would be quite enough for the supernumerary-sepoy line of life, and it was well for me they were. For though he was good-natured, he was very shiftless, and it was, as our national proverb says, like pulling teeth to teach him. But at the end of the next week he could say, with quite my easy and frisky_air, I. Very well, thank you. And you? This for an an swer to casual salutations.
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