MY FRIEND, DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE EXPOSING YOURSELF TO GREAT DANGER?
NO, YOU BOOB—I MISTOOK THE SOUND OF THE GUNS FOR SOMEBODY OPENING WINE AND JUST DROPPED IN TO JOIN THE PARTY
FOOLISH QUESTION—NO. 1313.
BY R. L. GOLDBERG
The surest and simplest way to appreciate Irvin Cobb is to start in to read him when you are too busy or too tired to read anything at all.
—George Barr McCutcheon
Irvin Cobb! Gentle, keen, loyal and truth-telling—the best ever.
—Wm. Travers Jerome
Certainly I appreciate Cobb! I appreciated him long before the mob got on to him. But the thing that galls me is—why the wrist watch? He came among us out west here, wearing a 27-jewelled, steam-heated, forty-dollar wrist watch and I assure you it is not being done here at all—at least not in our set. Shall we blame the Germans for this, or is Old Irv slipping? From my heart, I ask you to reason with him.