I am old and alone in the world.

They are dead and gone these many years that cared for me.

But sure, some of these aged ones I see about me can tell me some little word or two concerning them." Several bent and tottering men and women came nearer and answered his questions about each former friend as he mentioned the names.

This one they said had been dead ten years, that one twenty, another thirty.

Each succeeding blow struck heavier and heavier.