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Johns-Eaton, the British Ambassador. "Why didn't you go where there was some real sport?" "Oh, I found sport of a sort!" returned Enoch solemnly. Johns-Eaton gave Enoch a keen look. "I'll wager you did!" he exclaimed. "Any hunting?" "Some small game and a great deal of boating!" "Boating! Now you are spoofing me! Listen, Mr. Fowler, here's a man who says he was boating in the desert!"
If your head hadn't been attached to your shoulders good and strong, if you hadn't figured to be about square, or maybe rectangular, you had a chance to be a poker fiend or a booze hoist." "You're spoofing me, old dear. Wake up; it's morning." "Don't fool yourself, son. There was a steady organized effort to get you in bad. And it took money to get all these people after your goat.
Then you won't be so much trouble to those who have to look after you." "Yes, sir," I said, "I shall try, sir." "Then I'll give you another chance," he said sternly. I mean to say, it was all spoofing, the way we talked. I am certain he knew it as well as I did, and I am sure we both enjoyed it. I am not one of those who think it shows a lack of dignity to unbend in this manner on occasion.
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