That," he explained, "refers to my--I should say our--moving-picture lecture.

I thought it would look well if, when I lectured on Turkey, I wore a Turkish decoration, so I went after this one." Peter regarded his young friend with incredulous admiration.
"But did they believe you," he demanded, "when you told them you were an author and educator ?" Stetson closed one eye and grinned.

"They believed whatever I paid them to believe." "If you can get one of those," cried Peter, "Old man Gilman ought to get a dozen.

I'll tell them he's the author of the longest and dullest history of their flea-bitten empire that was ever written.

And he's a real professor and a real author, and I can prove it.