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                         THE MAN WHO WINS

                                BY

                          ROBERT HERRICK


                     CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
                          NEW YORK, 1897


                       COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY
                     CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


                          TROW DIRECTORY
                 PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
                             NEW YORK




                               _TO_

                               H. H.




                         THE MAN WHO WINS




I


The Four Corners in Middleton made a pleasant drive from the
university town of Camberton. Many a time in the history of the house
a party of young fellows had driven over the old turnpike that started
where the arsenal used to stand in the sacred quarter of Camberton,
and as the evening sun gilded the low, fresh-water marshes beyond
Spring Pond, would trot on toward the rolling hills of Middleton.
After dinner, or a dance