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Adventures In Friendship, by David Grayson
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Title: Adventures In Friendship
Author: David Grayson
Release Date: January 4, 2004 [EBook 10592]
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP
By David Grayson
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AN ADVENTURE IN FRATERNITY
This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I was ever in. Looking about me I perceive that the simplest things are the most difficult, the plainest things, the darkest, the commonest things, the rarest.
I have had an amusing adventure--and made a friend.
This morning when I went to town for my marketing I met a man who was a Mason, an Oddfellow and an Elk, and who wore the evidences of his various memberships upon his coat. He asked me what lodge I belonged to, and he slapped me on the back in the heartiest manner, as though he had known me intimately for a long time. (I may say, in passing, that he was trying to sell me a new kind of corn-