," he went on, "I took Scharley and Mrs.
Lesengeld over to Coney Island in an oitermobile and to-night yet we are
all going sailing on Egremont Bay."

Polatkin rose to his feet and shrugged his shoulders.

"Well," he said, "why not? They're about the same age."

"He's two years older as she is," Elkan declared, "and I bet yer they
wouldn't lose no time. It'll be next fall sure."

* * * * *

One busy morning three months later Elkan ripped open a heavy cream-laid
envelope and drew out the following announcement, engraved in shaded
old English type:

=Mrs. Fannie Stubin=
=has the honor of announcing the marriage=
=of her mother=

=Mrs. Sarah Lesengeld=
=to=
=Mr. Jacob Scharley=

=On Tuesday the first of October=
=at San Francisco, California=

"And what are we going to send them for a present?" Polatkin asked.

Elkan smiled serenely.

"A solid silver chafing dish," he replied without hesitation, "at the
very least, big enough to hold five pounds of brown stewed fish sweet
and sour."

THE END

[Illustration: Printer's Mark]

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
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| Transcriber's Notes: |
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| The 1912 edition of this text contains numerous words and phrases |
| with variant spellings. For the most part these variations have |
| been retained to maintain the flavor of the original text, and |
| only obvious spelling and puncuation errors have been corrected, |
| as detailed below. A few changes have also been made with |
| formatting of punctuation for text consistency. |
| |
| The name of character Kent J. Goldenfein, who is introduced on |
| pages 142-145, changes on page 210 to Kent J. "Goldstein" and |
| subsequently remains "Goldstein" for the remainder of the story. |
| This inconsistency has been retained to match the 1912 text. |
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