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"Now tell me, Bobby, how you have made out," said Mrs. Bright, as the little merchant seated himself at the supper table. "You cannot have done much, for you have only been gone five days."
"I have done pretty well, mother," replied Bobby, mysteriously; "pretty well, considering that I am only a boy."