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198<br />

ALL LX A GARDEN FAIR.<br />

' Yes,' said Will, ' you've got all your<br />

work cut out for you <strong>the</strong>re. I should like to<br />

see my fa<strong>the</strong>r's face if I were to tell him that<br />

I was go<strong>in</strong>g to be a poet. Why, he has got<br />

five-and-twenty projects at least, besides those<br />

which doubled him u}) y(3ars aL^o, and he is<br />

only wait<strong>in</strong>g till I have made some money to<br />

take it all away from mc and beg<strong>in</strong> aga<strong>in</strong>. He<br />

says I shall <strong>in</strong>herit a vast fortune.'<br />

Both laughed irreverently, and it must be<br />

owned that Will <strong>in</strong>terpreted <strong>the</strong> fifth command-<br />

ment <strong>in</strong> a narrow sense. He honoured his<br />

fiithcr as much as he could, but that was not<br />

nuich.<br />

' Of course if ever I do make money I shall<br />

take care not to lose it,' he went on. ' But to<br />

make money one must be <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> City. <strong>All</strong>en,<br />

old boy, I should like to say someth<strong>in</strong>g, but I<br />

am afraid.'<br />

* You cannot <strong>of</strong>lbnd mc, Will,' said <strong>All</strong>en,<br />

' not even if you were to call my poor verses<br />

detestable.'<br />

' I shouldn't do that, certa<strong>in</strong>ly, because I

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