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THE YOUNG SALESMAN
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
THE YOUNG SALESMAN.
ON BOARD THE "ARCTURUS."
While she was used chiefly for freight, she carried a few passengers, less than twenty in all.
I wish to call the reader's attention to the occupants of one of the small staterooms, a man and a boy. There was a great contrast between them. The man was thin and hollow-cheeked, and as he lay in his berth he looked to be, as he was, in the last stages of consumption.
The boy, who must have been nearly sixteen, was the picture of health. He was inclined to be dark, with black hair, bright eyes, and with considerable color in his cheeks.
He bent over the reclining figure, and asked, with anxious solicitude: "How do you feel, father?"
"No better, Scott," and the father began to cough.
"Does it hurt you to cough?"
"Yes, but it won't trouble me long."
"You will be better?" said the boy, half inquiringly.
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