Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire

AN APPLICATION OF THE SLAPSTICK TO SATIRE
BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
NEW YORK PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY 1917
COPYRIGHT 1917 BY PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
OR MAGAZINE FICTION À LA MODE
Unable to contain himself longer, although he realized the vast futility of it all, Massington seized her in his arms and buried her lovely eyes and hair in the storm of a thousand kisses.
“You love me, Lolo—tell me you love me!” he choked.
“No! no!” she cried, struggling from his clasp with an adorable coquetry. “No, it must not be.”
Massington, for the moment, found himself unable to speak. Then, “Why?” he asked simply, softly.
“Because,” the girl replied, with a cunning moué —“because
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I don’t yet know my own mind,” she finished.