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 *[Footnote: "You're the Mr. John Brown going shooting Uganda?"

"Yes."

"You want shome one come with you?"

"Yes."

"Share 'spenshes?"

"Yes."

"You put that 'vertisshment in Morning Posht?" "Yes." "I thought sho. Shorry knock you up. Felt I musht tell you that I'm not coming."]  Trusting that this will find you alive, he writes 7. 7. 20'', I write to thank you for your letter and to return the book. [The Diary of a Nobody]. It amused me, though I am not prepared to go as far as Rosebinger, Birringer or Bellinger. I could certainly furnish a bedroom without it; in fact, I hope to die before I read it again; I don't rank it with Don Quixote; and I have never seen the statue of St. John the Baptist, so "can't say." I think that Mr. Hardfur Huttle, towards the end, does much to cheer the reader.''

''I have bought pahnds and pahnds' worth of books; I am rou-inned; and yet I never have aught to read. Can you lend me Huxley's Collected Essays? Can you lend me anything in which somebody "goes for" somebody else? I yearn to read savage attacks; you know what I mean: not attaxi-cabri-au lait, but attacks free from all milk of human kindness.''