Having seen Riley do this very thing more than once, I know whereof I speak.

Often I have laughed with him over a happy passage, and grieved to see him plow his pen through it.

He would say, "I had to write that or die; and I've got to scratch it out or starve.

They wouldn't stand it, you know." I think Riley is about the most entertaining company I ever saw.

We lodged together in many places in Washington during the winter of '67-8, moving comfortably from place to place, and attracting attention by paying our board--a course which cannot fail to make a person conspicuous in Washington.