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Teeftallow

"You ought to hear her read 'Ulalume,' Mr. Teeftallow, it's just wonderful—is this boring you?"

"No-o," said Abner, bewildered but not bored.

"Miss Stebbins was so brilliant. She knew everything. Beatrice, don't you think Mr. Teeftallow looks a little bit like Poe's picture?—the same mane of black hair and the same sad, suffering face."

Beatrice said she didn't know how Poe looked.

"Well, let's run around to my house and look at it."

When they veered from their course to see Poe's picture, Mr. Sandage objected, but he was not heard. Miss Jones was saying of her idol, and to her conquest,

". . . to think he died of a hopeless love. I wonder, Mr. Teeftallow, did you ever almost die of a hopeless love? Somehow, you look as if you had. . . ."

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