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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

"Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man"

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"All right. Say, tell us something about your trip."
"Oh, I had a great time. Lots of nice fellows on the cattle-boat.
I went over on one, you know. Fellow named Morton--awfully
nice fellow. Say, Charley, you ought to seen me being butler
to the steers. Handing 'em hay. But say, the sea was fine;
all kinds of colors. Awful dirty on the cattle-boat, though."
"Hard work?"
"Yuh--kind of hard. Oh, not so very."
"What did you see in England?"
"Oh, a lot of different places. Say, I seen some great vaudeville
in Liverpool, Charley, with Morton--he's a slick fellow; works for
the Pennsylvania, here in town. I got to look him up. Say, I
wish we had an agency for college sofa-pillows and banners and
souvenir stuff in Oxford. There's a whole bunch of colleges there,
all right in the same town. I met a prof. there from some American
college--he hired an automobubble and took me down to a reg'lar
old inn--"
"Well, well!"
"--like you read about; sanded floor!"
"Get to London?"
"Yuh.


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