united himself clandestinely to one of Miss
Dorothy Gibbs's young ladies, and lost the patronage of Primrose Hall in
consequence.

Young Conway went into the grocery business with his ancient chum,
Rodgers--RODGERS & CONWAY! I read the sign only last summer when I was
down in Rivermouth, and had half a mind to pop into the shop and shake
hands with him, and ask him if he wanted to fight. I contented myself,
however, with flattening my nose against his dingy shop-window, and
beheld Conway, in red whiskers and blue overalls, weighing out sugar for
a customer--giving him short weight, I'll bet anything!

I have reserved my pleasantest word for the last. It is touching the
Captain. The Captain is still hale and rosy, and if he doesn't relate
his exploit in the War of 1812 as spiritedly as he used to, he makes up
by relating it more frequently and telling it differently every time!
He passes his winters in New York and his summers in the Nutter House,
which threatens to prove a hard nut for the destructive gentleman with
the scythe and the hour-glass, for the seaward gable has not yielded a
clapboard to the eastwind these twenty years. The Captain has now become
the Oldest Inhabitant in Rivermouth, and so I don't laugh at the Oldest
Inhabitant any more, but pray in my heart that he may occupy the post of
honor for half a century to come!

So ends the Story of a Bad Boy--but not such a very bad boy, as I told
you to begin with.

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