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d maverick when he wanders out of his own little bailiwick. Did you ev

te puddle, but when he strikes deep an

s are delighted to get a favouring nod from him. When he sails into the new office building the elevator captain gives him a cheery but deferential "good morning." In his private office he sits at a $500 roll top desk from Grand Rapids, surrounded by push buttons, and when he g

ht Poker Club, head of the Commercial Club, and founder of the Wilson County Trotting Association, is a whale when he is seated on his private throne in the corn belt. He rides the

he sets forth to become acquainted with medi?val architecture and the work of the old masters. He is just as helpless and apprehensive as a country boy at Coney Island. The guides and cabmen bullyrag him. Newsboys and beggars pester

h at his Kan

s local importance and battling with a foreign language. T

mself to the unfamiliar background and therefore is sure to attract more or less attention as

nguage. On the Continent if he kicks on the charges and carries a great deal of hand luggage and his clothes

been years ahead of the dictionaries. I have been so far ahead of the dictionaries that sometimes I fear they will never catch up. It has been my privilege t

taurant was called a "spaghetti joint." Mr. Lang declared that the appellation was altogether preposterous, as it is a well-known fact that spaghetti has no joints, being invertebrate and quite devoid of osseous tissue, the same as a caterpillar. Also he thought that "cinch" was merely a misspelling of "sink," somethin

rect. One is a pure and limpid stream; the other is a stagnant pool, swarming with bacilli. In front of a shop in Paris is a sign, "English spoken-American unders

ricans, say fifty or more in Boston and several in New York, are said to speak English in spots. Very often they fan, but sometimes they hit the ball. By patient endeavor they have mastered the sound of "a" as in "father," but they continue to cal

sh. Although this is my fourth visit to London and I have taken a thorough course at the music halls and conversed with some of the most prominent shopkeepers on or in the Strand, to say nothing of having chatted alm

his name (which is long enough without an appendix), an ancestry, a glorious past and possibly a future. Usually an American has to wait in London eight or ten years before he meets

pared me for the ceremony by whispering to me that the chap we were about to meet went everywhere and saw everybody; that he was a Varsity man and had shot

are at long range we throw bricks at the aristocracy and landed gentry, but when we come close to th

ber the names

d with bliss to know that this social lion was quite willing

as might escape from me. Furthermore, I was afraid that during our conversation I might accidentally lapse into slang, and I knew that in Great Britain slang is abhorred above every other earthly thing e

of charge, an allopathic dose of 24-karat English. I wanted to bask in the bright light of an intellec

to know you-that is, I am extremely pleased to

steel blue eye, and after a short period

ha

s of the Anglo-Saxon race," I said. "I don't think that any fair-minded American has it in for Great Britain-that is, it seems to me that all forme

commit himself by a hasty or impassioned reply,

the United States at the outset of the late war with Spain you bluffed them out-that is, you induced them to relinquish their unfriendly intentions. Every thoughtful man in America is on to this fact-that is, he understands how important was the service you rendered us-and he is correspondingly grateful. The American people and the English people speak the same

" sai

in the States we think that 'Teddy' is the goods-that is, the people of all sections have unbounded faith in him. We think he is on the level-that is, that his dominant policie

se he spoke as fo

the collateral we can bring over. No identification is necessary. Formerly the visiting American was asked to give references before he was separated from his income-that is, before one of your business institutions would enter into negotiations with h

d to get i

oon as their funds are exhausted. The English actors come home as soon as they are independently rich. Everybody is satisfied with the arrangement and the international bonds are further strengthened. Of course, some of the English actors blow up-that is, fail

head in grave acquiescence and the

whole is one promising an indefinite continuation of cordial friendship betw

," he r

we pa

lish language at first hand; to revel in its unexpected sublimities,