(xx) A Letter from Aunt Bess - Grocery List

Well sir, it's early evening as we enter the small house halfway up in the next block now and Here in the living room we find mr. Victor Gook and his son mr. Rushgook Mr. Victor Gook is established news easy chair with the newspaper while mr. Rushgook contortionistically a fourth at Avamport reads the volume of fiction and at length the elder gentleman says

That a new third lieutenant Stanley book you got there. Yeah, I read often look at this in this afternoon know what to tell you uh... their lieutenant clinton stanley in the united states or outwitting the new york stock market plungers that's the good with you keep it i would you start reading it and get interested in i wouldn't get it back for an hour

that's a fine thing to say the report over five years let me finish this chapter and then you can have it all even who you go over to the services we're going to work out of the problems together probably this book is the best one of the whole series The lieutenant standing is tough as ever.

Listen. The gallant young officer produced from his pocket a bulky roll of bank notes. He turned to the heavy jaw gambler and said, Hogan, I have your $90,000. Can you cover it? Why don't you ever finish a thing, Rush?

Hogan sneered and flicked a speck of dust from the sleeve of his checkered suit. I never bet less than a quarter of a million, he said, and a huge cluster of diamonds. I don't know.

Just to hear myself think, Rush, I asked you a question. I asked you why you never finish a thing. Did I forget it? You left a pile of cups and saucers sitting on the stove.