. The Southern States. said he, I dont recognize, but the voicereminds me of one Bill same, old fellow, the Montague had commencedlife some twenty years before with asmall patrimony and a tolerable educa- PICTURESO UE VIR GIN/A. 237. GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS IN 1893. tion, both of which he drank up. Withhis means and respectabihty he also losthis good name, literally. From thesonorous William Montague (accent onthe g2ie) it got to be Will Montage,then Bill Tage (pronounce g hard)—and by the time he arrived at the condi-tion of complete vagabondism nothing-was
. The Southern States. said he, I dont recognize, but the voicereminds me of one Bill same, old fellow, the Montague had commencedlife some twenty years before with asmall patrimony and a tolerable educa- PICTURESO UE VIR GIN/A. 237. GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS IN 1893. tion, both of which he drank up. Withhis means and respectabihty he also losthis good name, literally. From thesonorous William Montague (accent onthe g2ie) it got to be Will Montage,then Bill Tage (pronounce g hard)—and by the time he arrived at the condi-tion of complete vagabondism nothing-was left of his title but Bill Taggs. Mr. Montague, Im glad to see Montague ? It\vasnt Mr. Mon-tague when we used to sit on the samebench at school. I have never foreotten our early friendship, old boy ; how weused to catch flies together and drownkittens. Ah ! those were rare times !and William sighed as if the reminis-cence was too much for him. Ah, Porte! we will never see suchdays again. To think of the windowsweve broken, the bird-nests weverobbed, the hens eggs weve then the splendid lies we usedto tell the school-master. You couldbeat us all at that, Porte ; we all knockedunder to you. Many a whopper Pve
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