Canadian printer & publisher . Sir John, andrepeated the second snap the second time, and added Pardon,two whiskies and two sodas. The second whiskey and soda had been brought and dulypolished off when I tried my best to get Sir John steered aroundto where he would give me some information along the lines Iwas after. I had not any too much time to get back to theoffice and turn the stufT in under the best of circumstances,and as the whiskey and soda was .served in generous lots I wasafraid that I would be bowled over before I ever got back to theshop. So I made another attempt. Remember I was
Canadian printer & publisher . Sir John, andrepeated the second snap the second time, and added Pardon,two whiskies and two sodas. The second whiskey and soda had been brought and dulypolished off when I tried my best to get Sir John steered aroundto where he would give me some information along the lines Iwas after. I had not any too much time to get back to theoffice and turn the stufT in under the best of circumstances,and as the whiskey and soda was .served in generous lots I wasafraid that I would be bowled over before I ever got back to theshop. So I made another attempt. Remember I was seated direct-ly in front of his nibs, who was a very big man. He made ahabit of sitting with his legs sprawled well apart and used hisknees as resting posts for his hands. From this peculiar posi-tion he would look at me with something akin to amusementevery time I started to tell him what I was after. So thethird time the whiskey and soda wagon was run in I told himthat I couldnt drink any more whiskey and stay sober, where-. upon Sir John looked at me and through me as no man had everlooked before, and then took up the card I had presented whenI came. And so your editor sent you up here to interview me, did he?I admitted that such was the case, and gave Sir John to un-derstand that there would be trouble in store for me if I felldown on the assignment. Well, drawled Sir John, focusing his rather bleary eye on me, you take your card, sonny, and run back to your editor, and tell him when he sends any person out to interviewSir John to trot out a real man, not a child who cant holdmore than two whiskies and sodas. You know where the dooris. Good-day. And thus the interview ended. Another of the Australian delegation had served his time on one of the big London pa-pers that devoted muchspace to scandal storiesand divorce proceed-ings. In fact scandalstories always got theright of way. There had been aparticularly sordid casein print for a couple ofdays and at last thecity editor
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