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Someone told me, also, that Balxac died of overwork. Coffee never killed anybody, bat overwork has slain its millions. I’m remembering that thought with serious consideration, especially since H takes so little to overwork me.
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With next Thursday Lincoln’s birthday, I quizzed the banks to see if they were going to have holiday. “No ma’am!” came the prompt reply, “We ain’t Yankees.'*
Well, I didn't know. We always tease the bankers by telling them they take every excuse for a holiday (even Benedict Arnold’s birthday) and we didn’t know but what the Great Emancipator would be listed. t
With one grandfather arriving late at Gettysburg under Longstreet's unfortunate division, and the other grandfather having arrived with Pickett's, the printers at Rappahannock News will come to work on Lincoln’s birthday at the usual hour. It would seem downright disrespectful to our grandsires to take the day off.
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