Boone County Recorder . wmm mmmmm. AUTHOR AS A BOOTBLACK. Why Lloyd Osborne Shined Shots ofVisiting Englishman. Dinner guests always like to startLloyd Osborne talking of the dayswhen he and Robert Louis Stevensonlived In Samoa. One of the most pathetic incidentsthat I remember of our life there,?aid Osborne, occurred during thevisit of an Englishman. He was sothoorughly English—so stiffened andrigid In his Anglicisms—that it wasimpossible for him to abate one Jotor tittle of his accustomed formali-ties. We were living, of course, In themost primitive fashion—In native huts;-?-taking care of o
Boone County Recorder . wmm mmmmm. AUTHOR AS A BOOTBLACK. Why Lloyd Osborne Shined Shots ofVisiting Englishman. Dinner guests always like to startLloyd Osborne talking of the dayswhen he and Robert Louis Stevensonlived In Samoa. One of the most pathetic incidentsthat I remember of our life there,?aid Osborne, occurred during thevisit of an Englishman. He was sothoorughly English—so stiffened andrigid In his Anglicisms—that it wasimpossible for him to abate one Jotor tittle of his accustomed formali-ties. We were living, of course, In themost primitive fashion—In native huts;-?-taking care of ourselves as best wecould and doing the work we could notget the natives to do—which was agreat deal. Of these facta the Eng-lishman observed nothing. The worldalways must adapt Itself to the Eng-lishman—not he to the world. At nightwe showed him to the little but wherehe was to sleep. Early the next morn-ing, when I passed his door—long be-fore he was awake—I saw his shoescarefully placed outside for the valetto
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