i m not a bit proud of or of paul about his horrid love affairs he was silent he maintained his bad temper at a high level of outraged nobility all the four blocks home at the door he left in self and the lawn with a shock it was revealed to him i wonder if she was right � if she was partly right must have him to it was one of the few times in his life when he had his eternal excellence and he perceived the summer night the wet grass then i don t i ve pulled it off we re going to have our and for paul i d do anything they were buying their tackle at brothers the sporting goods with the help of fellow member of the was completely mad he and danced he muttered to paul say this is pretty good eh to be buying the stuff eh and good old himself coming down on the floor to wait on say if those fellows that are the north lakes knew we were going dear up to they d have a fit eh well come on brother � i mean here s your we re a couple of easy marks wheel let me at i m going to buy out the store he on rods and gorgeous rubber hip on tents with windows and folding chairs and ice boxes he wanted to buy all of them it was the paul whom he was always vaguely protecting who kept him from his drunken desires but even paul when a with poetry and discussed flies now of course yoa boys know he said the great scrap is between dry flies and wet flies personally i m for dry flies more sporting that s so lots more sporting who knew very little about flies either wet or dry now if you ll take my advice you ll stock up well on these pale evening and silver and red oh boy there s a fly that red ant you bet that s what it a fly rejoiced yes sir that red ant said is a real honest to god fly oh i guess mr won t come a when i drop one of those red on the water asserted and his thick wrists made a motion of casting yes and the salmon will take it too said who had never seen a salmon salmon say paul can you see uncle george with his on em in some morning bout seven they were on the new york bound for without their families they were tree in a man s world in the smoking of the y outside the car window was a of with the gold of mysterious lights was immensely conscious in the sway and clatter of the train of going of going on toward paul he pretty nice to be hi d g eh the small room with its walls of colored steel was filled mostly with the sort of men he as the best meet � real good there were four of them on the long seat a fat man with a shrewd fat face a knife edged man in a green hat a very young young man with an imitation and facing them on two leather chairs were paul and a old fashioned man very cunning with wrinkles bis mouth they all read new s or trade boot and shoe journals journals and waited for the joys of conversation it was the very young man now making his first journey by who began it say i had a wild old time in he say if a fellow knows the ropes there he can have as wild a time as he can in new york i bet you simply raised the old ned i figured you were a bad man when i saw you get on the train chuckled the fat one the others laid down their papers well that s all right guess i seen some things in the you never seen i complained the boy oh bet you did i bet you up the milk like a little devil then the boy having served as introduction they ignored him and charged into real talk only paul sitting by himself readily at a story in a newspaper failed to join them and all but regarded him as a an eccentric a person of no spirit which of them said which has never been determined and does not matter since they all had the same ideas and expressed � than witli the same ponderous and assurance if it was not who was delivering any given verdict at least he was on who did deliver it at that announced the first they re selling quite some in guest are everywhere i don t know how you f fed about pr but the way it strikes me is that it s a mi ty thing for the poor that hasn t got any will power but for fellows like us it s an of personal liberty that s a fact has got no right to interfere with a fellow s personal liberty the second a man came in from the car but as all the seats were full he stood up while he smoked his he was an he was not one of the old families of the they looked upon him and after trying to appear at ease by examining his chin in the mirror he gave it up and went out in silence just been making a trip through the south business conditions not very good down there said one of the council is that a fact not very good eh no didn t strike me they were up to normal not up to normal eh no wouldn t hardly say they were the whole council nodded and not hardly up to snuff well business conditions ain t what they t to be out west 