Illustrations

[They look him over as if he were a fresh air child being given a day's outing.]

[The watcher walks around the table, giving each hand a careful scrutiny.]

["'Round and 'round the tree I go"]

["Atta boy, forty-nine: Only one more to go!"]

[For three hours there is a great deal of screaming.]

[He was further aided by the breaks of the game.]

[Mrs. Deemster didn't enter into the spirit of the thing at all.]

["That's right," says the chairman.]

["If you weren't asleep what were you doing with your eyes closed?"]

[You would gladly change places with the most lawless of God's creatures.]

[I am mortified to discover that the unpleasant looking man is none other than myself.]

["I can remember you when you were that high"]

[She would turn away and bite her lip.]

["Listen Ed! This is how it goes!"]

[They intimate that I had better take my few pennies and run 'round the corner to some little haberdashery.]

[I thank them and walk in to the nearest dining-room table.]

["Why didn't you tell us that you were reading a paper on birth control?"]


[pg 003]