Around South America with a sample case . Down here they call itthe grande mal and I can vouch for it beingproperly named, for it is the big sickness all have been ten weeks of terrible suffering,but tender friendships shown me during thatperiod fully compensated. There was another in-cident brought about by my illness, and the storyis well worth telling. I was invited to tell theAmerican Club something about Buenos Airesforty years ago. When the talk ended a gentle-man came across the room and said, So this isJ. Frank Lanning, Well, I have been searchingthe town over for you, and
Around South America with a sample case . Down here they call itthe grande mal and I can vouch for it beingproperly named, for it is the big sickness all have been ten weeks of terrible suffering,but tender friendships shown me during thatperiod fully compensated. There was another in-cident brought about by my illness, and the storyis well worth telling. I was invited to tell theAmerican Club something about Buenos Airesforty years ago. When the talk ended a gentle-man came across the room and said, So this isJ. Frank Lanning, Well, I have been searchingthe town over for you, and have just cabled NewYork saying you could not be found. I have some-thing of interest to you. He then took a cable-gram from his pocket and handed it to me. Itread; Lampman, Buenos Aires. We understandour friend J. Frank Lanning is seriously ill in anemergency hospital in Buenos. Look him up andrender any service possible. Signed Worthing--ton Pump Company, Jones. What a wonderful oldworld it is, and how big its heart is if we can only. AROUND SOUTH AMERICA WITH A SAMPLE CASE 191 touch it? There have been countless good Samari-tans since the story of the first one was told bythe Master. There is special steamer train on sailing daysthat makes no stops, so we reached the docks ingood shape. The Highland Laddie: was tied upalongside the storage house of the Swift plantand busy loading frozen quarters of beef and car-casses of mutton. Our train backed down along-side, and we were glad to find ourselves on boardan English ship once more. Lines were cast off at5 P. M., and we steamed slowly out of the canalto the river, heading for Montevideo and anchoredinside the breakwater at 7 oclock the next morn-ing. This place calls to mind some sensationalevents worth noting. Forty years ago there wasno breakwater here, and ships anchored in theopen roadway, exposed to the pampero, whichlivens things up from time to time in these was sent on shore with the paymaster one after-noon f
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