[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link book
Elbow-Room

CHAPTER XXV
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I'm a mighty good walker.
I did think of getting up some kind of a pedestrian match with some of your champion walkers, but it's no use; it'd only create an excitement." "How do people treat you usually ?" "Well, I can't complain.

Snap me up for a tramp sometimes, or make disagreeable remarks about me.

But generally I get along well enough.
The undertakers are hardest on me.

They say I exercise a depressing influence on their business by setting a bad example to other people; and one of 'em, over in Constantinople, he said a man who'd defrauded about fifty-four generations of undertakers ought to be ashamed to show his face in civilized society.

But bless you, sonny, I don't mind them.


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