In his account of the episode he says: I told a valued friend of his and mine that I did not believe he could get twenty-five hundred dollars, and I think now I set the figure too high. As gratefully as delightedly, Your abiding friend, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. I enjoy the Colonel very much, & shall enjoy the rest of him with an obscene delight. Face, nose, side, back contused;tendon of left ankle broken.
He would naturally favor simplicity in anything. He could wave asidecare and grief and remorse, forget their very existence, it seemed; butin the end he had only driven them ahead a little way and they waited byhis path. Let us have no hemming and hawing; make short, sharp work of the business. It is a fearful document, too fearful, we may believe, for Mrs.
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