Next week's quotations (from 4 June) are as follows:
1. …I went in and saw the most villainous loafer that I ever set eyes on.
His boots and breeches were plastered with mud and beer-stains. He wore a
muddy-white dunghill sort of thing on his head, and it hung down in slips on
his shoulders which were a good deal scratched…
2. … "I'd give you my card if I had it, but I'm so damned drunk I hardly
know my own Club. Oh yes! It's the Travellers. If ever we meet in town,
remember me…"
3. … He was a wanderer and vagabond like myself, but with an educated taste
for whisky. He told of tales of things he had seen and done, of
out-of-the-way corners of the Empire into which he had penetrated, and of
adventures in which he risked his life for a few day's food…
The sources of last week's quotes to 3 June), as a number of people have
pointed out, were:
1. 'The Puzzler' in 'Actions and Reactions'
2. 'The Vortex' in 'A Diversity of Creatures'
3. 'The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat' in 'A Diversity of
Creatures'
Good wishes to all,
John R
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