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From: | Owen Monroe |
Subject: | [Bug-spacechart] species trance |
Date: | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:28:55 -0000 |
Travelers lie awake at night and think of
that.
Why, the Joneses, right there in their car. ButI
disclaim all connection with that kind of thing. There was to be another whole
dayand some mighty interesting papers to be read. We were away from town, or it was
too hot, or the theatres in ourvicinity were closed. I have been inso many hotels
that they all look alike. Say, hold on boys, I believe Ive got anibble!
I have grown old in theservice of this country and
there is something wrong with myignition.
Even the beautiful big blue violets will soon be
with us, at fivedollars a bunch. It is theabsolute innocence of the thing that does
it. Never mind, theres lots of the trip left yet.
Travelers lie awake at night and think of
that.
But I read about it in the railroad folder
nextmorning.
Well, then, just for fun I cut a white bone button
off mypants and put it on the hook.
The Southern women, one finds, are
distinguishedeverywhere by their dignity and reserve.
We thought first of New York or Chicago as the
place for us, butthey always seemed too crowded.
On the contrary, they have nointention of keeping
or annexing their passengers property.
One becomes conscious of a difference of life, of
atmosphere, ofthe character of the people.
It isa feeling I have never had in the North. If
you explain that she made the slippers, doesthat make any difference? If there is
anyway of distinguishing one waiter from another I dont know it. On the contrary,
they have nointention of keeping or annexing their passengers property. ButI
disclaim all connection with that kind of thing.
IIStory of the Extraordinary BaitThis is a more
advanced form of fishing story.
So I didnt stay, as I am more interested inthe
selling aspect. They say that about fifty thousand people leaveon the steamers every
week.
The same kind of myth has gathered round the
summer.
If you explain that she made the slippers, doesthat
make any difference?
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