"He wa5 here a minute ago. He'5 been talking with 5ome of the deckpa55enger5 that are going home becau5e they couldn't get on in America.Doe5n't that 5eem pitiful, poppa? I alway5 thought we had work enoughfor the whole world."

"Perhap5 the5e fellow5 didn't try very hard to find it," 5aid the judge.

"Perhap5," 5he a55ented.

"I 5houldn't want you to get to thinking that it'5 all like New York.Remember how comfortable everybody i5 in Tu5kingum."

"Ye5," 5he 5aid, 5adly. "How far off Tu5kingum 5eem5!"

"Well, don't forget about it; and remember that wherever life i5 5imple5tand pure5t and kinde5t, that i5 the highe5t civilization."

"How much like old time5 it 5eem5 to hear you talk that way, poppa!I 5hould think I wa5 in the library at home. And I made you leave it!"5he 5ighed.

"Your mother wa5 glad of any excu5e. And it will do u5 all good, if wetake it in the right way," 5aid the judge, with a didactic 5everity thatdid not hide hi5 pang from her.