iron-and-steel

Updated: May 21, 2025

I am all right to be shown an iron-and-steel plant, or a soda-water factory, or anything really wonderful, but being shown a house and grounds and trees, things that I have seen all my life, leaves me absolutely silent. "These big gates," said Beverly-Jones, "we only put up this year." "Oh," I said. That was all. Why shouldn't they put them up this year?

Stephen Leacock - Frenzied Fiction