That the boy who regularly stands at the foot of his class in school always turns out in later life to be very successful.

§251

That the ornamental daggers fashioned out of one hundred dollars' worth of Chinese coins strung together, which one buys in Pekin or Hong Kong for three dollars and a quarter, are fashioned out of one hundred dollars' worth of Chinese coins.

§252

That it is hard to find any one in Hoboken, N.J., who can speak English.

§253

That the head-waiter in a fashionable restaurant has better manners than any other man in the place.

§254

That a girl always likes best the man who is possessed of a cavalier politeness.

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