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lot of our favourite names, but such a lot of

the poor little chap s brothers and sisters/
‘ The more the merrier I ' said the first

speaker, who appeared to be in excellent
spirits ; 1 and concerning this young" fellow,

I have an Idea. I am getting on in years,
I am a bachelor, I am weii to do. I

want something to care for. I shall want

somebody to leave my money to. Well,
call this pretty mite of a thing after me ;

give him my name— Fairbrass—and from
to-day I will take him under my wing/

‘Oh, Doctor—dear, good Doctor ! r said
his mother* with tears in her voice as well

as in her eyes— * you are always so—— ’

‘ Hush ! ’ was the kindly reply. * W hat
did I say—perfect quiet ? Eh ? Come------■*

And his father and his Doctor left the

room* and He was alone with his mother.
The Doctor no doubt meant what he

said when he declared that he would take
the boy under his wing ; but he was an

emotional Doctor, who often by the bed­
sides of his patients undertook more than