SATAN:
Dear me,
I’ve had the favor and support of three.
A DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH
President Roosevelt. Secretary of State Hay.
The President—Say, John, I wish you would see the Chinese Minister and tell him that Russia is complaining that China does not observe a strict neutrality. Tell him that she is imperiling her administrative entity.
Secretary Hay—I have already done so, sir; and I ventured to add that an oyster schooner that had just arrived from below had a very large mast.
The P.—What the dickens had that to do with it?
S. H.—Ah, you are not skilled in the language of diplomacy; it was an oblique reference to the “big stick.” The Chink understood; he was born on one of the days before yesterday.