R. A.—Well, I’ll be damned!
C. P.—Sure!—if you find a sentimentalist who will publish your book. He will do the damning.
II
Editor.—Glad to see you, sir. Take a chair.
Visitor.—I am the proprietor of The Prosperous Monthly.
Ed.—Take two chairs.
Vis.—I called to congratulate you on the extraordinary success of The Waste Basket. I should not have thought it possible for you to break into our field and play this game as well as we. And with so fantastic a title!
Ed.—For my success I am greatly indebted to yourself.
Vis.—Not if I know it: we have fought you, tooth and nail.
Ed.—Oh, that is all right; if it had been expedient we should have fought back. Our prosperity depended on yours.