beetle-purveyor

Updated: July 24, 2026

I'll just put on some old clothes, to dress the part of a beetle-purveyor correctly, and also in case I get 'em torn in my meeting with judge 'Oily. I'll see you later and report, if I survive his wrath." Thus it was that, on the morning after this dialogue, a clean-built young fellow walked along West Sixteenth Street, appreciatively sniffing the sunny crispness of the May air.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Average Jones