CHAPTER XXI.

The doctor swindled--How we got even--Diamond cut diamond--The doctor peddling stove-pipe brackets--His first customer--His mishap and demoralized condition--The doctor and myself invited to a country dance--He the center of attraction--The doctor in love with a cross-eyed girl--Engaged to take her home--His plan frustrated--He gets even with me--We conclude to diet him--The landlady returns--Does not know the house.