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Dodd sang "Just before the Battle." So that the thing
became a fixture, like the dropping of the dummy axe;
and you are to conceive me, Sunday after Sunday, piping
up my lamentable ditty, and covered, when it was done,
with gratuitous applause. It is a beautiful trait in
human nature that I was invariably offered an encore.
I was well paid, however, even to sing. Pinkerton and
I, after an average Sunday, had five hundred dollars to
divide. Nay, and the picnics were the means, although
indirectly, of bringing me a singular windfall. This
was at the end of the season, after the "Grand Farewell
Fancy Dress Gala." Many of the hampers had suffered
severely; and it was judged wiser to save storage,
dispose of them, and lay in a fresh stock when the
campaign reopened. Among my purchasers was a working
man of the name of Speedy, to whose house, after
several unavailing letters, I must proceed in person,
wondering to find myself once again on the wrong side,
and playing the creditor to some one else's debtor.
Speedy was in the belligerent stage of fear.


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