It's a good property, and when our party gets through chasing meadow-larks and gets down to business again it will be more valuable.

Was that your editorial yesterday on municipal government?
Good.

I'm for trying some of these new ideas.

I've been reading a lot of stuff on municipal government abroad, and some of those foreign ideas we ought to try here.

I want the 'Courier' to take the lead in those things; it may help"-- and Bassett smiled--"it may help to make the high brows see that ours has really been the party of progress through these years when it's marched backward." Bassett swung round slowly until his gaze fell upon the map, reminding the young man of Thatcher's interest in that varicolored oblong of paper.