The diary of two innocents abroad . JBt^fJ vr Innocents Abroad 59 oer me, not because Im not goingto hang over it every night Uke alover, but that I expected this storyto end up in some noble thought I might cook up one sen-timent anyway. Ive got some waydown as Ive said, when I look at therows of books on the stalls about thewar, and I think how many peoplehave been able to shoot off theirmouths about it, it did seem to methat with as clear a head for figuresas I have, I could figure up some-thing to say that would close up adiary prettily. But after this trip,even winning as much
The diary of two innocents abroad . JBt^fJ vr Innocents Abroad 59 oer me, not because Im not goingto hang over it every night Uke alover, but that I expected this storyto end up in some noble thought I might cook up one sen-timent anyway. Ive got some waydown as Ive said, when I look at therows of books on the stalls about thewar, and I think how many peoplehave been able to shoot off theirmouths about it, it did seem to methat with as clear a head for figuresas I have, I could figure up some-thing to say that would close up adiary prettily. But after this trip,even winning as much money as Ihave, I feel quite undersize. And Ikeep looking at the fine cane theboys gave me, and I wonder if itwouldnt have made all the differ-ence in the world in the way Imfeeling just now if I had had a fullhead of hair, and a little spring inmy legs, and a few more years off myage, and had been carrying, insteadof a cane, those eighty pounds onmy back and a gun over my guess those are about the only peo- 6o The Diar
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