When Sol read the thing next day.

Raally didn’t ’pear to be

Extry waste o’ sympathy

Over Sol—pore feller!—Yit,

Sake o’ them-air little bit

O’ two orphants—as you might

Call ’em then, by law and right,—

Sol’s old friends wuz sorry, and

Tried to hold him out their hand

Same as allus: But he’d flinch—