First thing, of course, the People's Choice had to take a run over the country--which was a good thing, too, because he didn't know much about it--and let the people in general know that he was their choice.

I went along to tell the other people how he broke it to them." I confess I sat up at this, for there was now so supreme an innocence in Dan Anderson's eye that one might have been morally certain that something was coming.

"From dogs to politics--wasn't that a little singular ?" I asked.
"Yes," said he; "but you have to be versatile in journalism.

The regular man who was to have gone on that special presidential car got slugged at an art gatherin'.

I didn't ask for the place.