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TONY was young Tony, and old Tony was his grandfather. This story is / about young Tony, and no human being believes a word of it, unless / young Tony does.
Tony was born in the town of Antioch. This is not the same Antioch that / you read about in history, but quite a different place. It was a place / where nearly every one was very dark as to the complexion, and rather / short as to the temper and figure. People who were fair in the face and / easy in the temper were not thought much of in Antioch. When Tony's / mother saw that her baby was as fair as a daffodil and as good as gold, / and laughed all day, she said, "Oh dear, oh dear, I suppose he takes / after his grandfather, he is not in the least like _my_ family," and / the matter annoyed her so much that she died.