(This town's good enough for me and it
suits tlie Mrs. too, though they didn't
neither one of us appreciate it till we'd
give New York a try. If I was running
the South Bend Boosters' club, I'd make
everybody spend a year on the Gay White
"Way. They'd be so tickled when they
got to South Bend that you'd never hear
them razz the old burg again. Just yes-
terday we had a letter from Katie, asking
us would we come and pay her a visit.
She's a regular New Yorker now. Well,
I didn't have to put up no fight with my
Mrs. Before I could open my pan she
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says, "I'll write and tell her we can't
come; that you're looking for a job and
don't want to go nowheres just now."

Well, they's some truth in that. I
don't want to go nowheres and 111 take a
job if it's the right kind. We could get
along on the interest from Ella's money,
but I 'm tired of laying round. I didn't do
a tap of work all the time I was east and
I'm out of the habit, but the days cer-
tainly do drag when a man ain't got noth-
ing to do and if I can find something
where I don't have to travel, I'll trv it
out.
