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nine now."
"No, but I ain't. I stay the same age I was when I come."
"well.html">Well," says I, "come to think.html">think, there's something just here that I
we would all be young, and bright, and spry."
"Well, you can be young if you want to. You've only got to wish."
"Well, then, why didn't you wish?"
"I did. They all do. You'll try it, some day, like enough; but
ever try some other business?"
"Yes, I tried keeping grocery, once, up in the mines; but I
about it; it was like being part dead and part alive, both at the
pretty quick and went to sea."
"That's it. Grocery people like it, but you couldn't. You see you
couldn't seem to take any interest in it. I was strong, and
a butterfly. I went to picnics and dances and parties with the
but it wasn't any use; I couldn't take to it--fact is, it was an
something to DO; and when my work was done, I wanted to sit quiet,
kids. You can't think what I suffered whilst I was young."
"How long was you young?"
"Only two weeks. That was plenty for me. Laws, I was so lonesome!
years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only
funny, if it hadn't been so pitiful. Well, I was so hungry for the
the old people, but they wouldn't have it. They considered me a
was a-plenty for me. I was glad to get back.html">back my bald head again,
or a tree."
"Well," says I, "do you mean to say you're going to stand still at
back to twenty-five any more--I know.html">know that, mighty well. I know a
all the time, but I don't seem to get any older. That is, bodily--
satisfactory."
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