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When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic.

It is a good many years since I was in Switzerland last. In that remote time there was only one ladder railway in the country.

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather.

The fifteenth regular toast was "The Babies--as they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities."

I will say, in conclusion, that my share of the welcome to our guest is none the less hearty because I talk so much nonsense, and I know that I can say the same for the rest of the speakers.