Excerpt: ...a few of us here, and we-we think you ought to see that and not give the crowd a bad name. All the other correspondents have some regard for-for their position and for the paper, but you loaf around here looking like an old tramp-like any old beach-comber, and it queers the rest of us. Why, those English artillerymen at the Club asked me about you, and when I told them you were a New York correspondent they made all sorts of jokes about American newspapers, and what could I say?" Channing eyed the other man with ...
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Excerpt: ...a few of us here, and we-we think you ought to see that and not give the crowd a bad name. All the other correspondents have some regard for-for their position and for the paper, but you loaf around here looking like an old tramp-like any old beach-comber, and it queers the rest of us. Why, those English artillerymen at the Club asked me about you, and when I told them you were a New York correspondent they made all sorts of jokes about American newspapers, and what could I say?" Channing eyed the other man with keen delight. "I see, by Jove! I'm sorry," he said. But the next moment he laughed, and then apologized, remorsefully. "Indeed, I beg your pardon," he begged, "but it struck me as a sort of-I had no idea you fellows were such swells-I knew I was a social outcast, but I didn't know my being a social outcast was hurting anyone else. Tell me some more." "Well, that's all," said Keating, suspiciously. "The fellows asked me to speak to you about it and to tell you to take a brace. Now, for instance, we have a sort of mess-table at the hotels and we'd like to ask you to belong, but-well-you see how it is-we have the officers to lunch whenever they're on shore, and you're so disreputable"- Keating scowled at Channing, and concluded, impotently, "Why don't you get yourself some decent clothes and-and a new hat?" Channing removed his hat to his knee and stroked it with affectionate pity. "It is a shocking bad hat," he said. "Well, go on." "Oh, it's none of my business," exclaimed Keating, impatiently. "I'm just telling you what they're saying. Now, there's the Cuban refugees, for instance. No one knows what they're doing here, or whether they're real Cubans or Spaniards." "Well, what of it?" "Why, the way you go round with them and visit them, it's no wonder they say you're a spy." Channing stared incredulously, and then threw back his head and laughed with a shout of delight. "They don't, do they?" he asked. "Yes, they do, since...
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by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe and F. Dorr Steele. Good. No dust jacket. Red cloth cover w/ gold lettering, structurally intact, some light yellowing to pages, light soil and wear at edges of deckled pages, shows some minor edge and corner wear on cover. 345 pg A western about the U.S. military Troop at Fort Crockett, the Red Riders and the New England woman who accompanies her officer father at his new outpost assignment.
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1906 hardcover in good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the red cloth cover. Measures 7.75 x 5.25 x 1.3 inches. 345 pages.
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Near Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 320 pp. The book is very slightly cocked. Some foxing to the rear endpapers. The binding is tight and the text is clean.
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Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E M Ashe & F Dorr Steele. Good. No Jacket. Illustrated & previous owners name & Picture Cover.
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NO Dust Jacket Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. STOCK PHOTOS MAY VARY FROM THE ACTUAL ITEM. ACTUAL PHOTOS AVAIL. UPON REQUEST.
