y, and Pewee, in turn.

[Illustration: BOB HOLLIDAY CARRIES HOME HIS FRIEND.]

And here I must do the last two boys the justice to say that they
called to inquire after Jack every day during the illness that followed,
and the old animosity to Jack was never afterward revived by Pewee and
his friends.

On the evening after this accident and these rescues, Dr. Lanham said to
Mrs. Lanham and Susan and Mr. Williams, who happened to be there again,
that a boy was wanted in the new drug-store in the village, to learn the
business, and to sleep in the back room, so as to attend night-calls.
Dr. Lanham did not know why this Jack Dudley wouldn't be just the boy.

Susan, for her part, was very sure he would be; and Mr. Williams agreed
with Susan, as, indeed, he generally did.

Dr. Lanham thought that Jack might be allowed to attend school in the
daytime in the winter season, and if the boy had as good stuff in him as
he seemed to have, there was no reason why he shouldn't come to
something some day.

"Come to something!" said Susan. "Come to something! Why, he'll make one
of the best doctors in the country yet."

And again Mr. Williams entirely agreed with Susan, Jack Dudley was sure
to go up to the head of the class.

Jack got the place, and I doubt not fulfilled the hope of his friends. I
know this, at least, that when a year or so later his good friend and
teacher, Mr. Williams, was married to his good and stanch friend, Susan
Lanham, Jack's was one of the happiest faces at the wedding.

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