After that, hunger came down on all the multitude, and so great was the care taken by Mrs. Hallock and Mrs. Isaac Dobson, to say nothing of the contents of the brick oven, that the minister and the rector and all the friends who had come down to witness the dread joy, thought not of Christmas dinner elsewhere that day.

You know already—you must know—that Harry Cornwall had turned his farm-products into money in order to buy Neptune, that he might have the happiness of restoring that loved animal to Kate Hallock, and that the plan was well carried out; and you ought to know that you can never find in the Connecticut Records that the charge for caring for Captain Dobson so many years was ever borne by the state; but you cannot know with what great reluctance we bid Kate and Harry and Frank good-bye.

THE END.

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