The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-08
NOVEL OF TIE FUTURE.
Imaginary Dietation mot Far Wrons)
by Author 70 Typist.

Imaginary Diotatioa mot Far Wrons)
by Author 70 Typist.
"EYoW. Miss Barlock,' ! said to my
La typist US | entered my writing
den. '.f you're quite ready wen
begin 0t once please. title The Syn
thetic Pilgrim-A Post lmpresslonlst
Romance Have you got that?" Miss
Barlock had got that, but she looked
puzzled.
"'Chapter 1.-The Hero aud How He
Became n Pilgrim. -rIIe was quite a
simple. ordinary kind of man. His
outlines were hard and black He had
a small, rpundish head with three dots
In it, one above the other His body
was triangular, and all down It was a
row Of httle circles These were his
buttons5 His arms were straight ami
quite tlsn They ended IN three prongs
like to9sting forks, II was the same
with his legs"
! noticed slight elevation In Miss
Barlodks eyebrows at this point. ITS
all right. Miss Bariock." ! assured her.
81 anI merely adopting the method by
which an unsophistlcated mind invari.
ably represents the human form You
don't know? No more do /, 50 let us
get on.
He lived in a really and truly Gr-
tisic house II was an irregular par
dlleogram. and the roof was bright
pink, The door and windows were
stuck in anyhow, and there were little
corkscrew. things coming out Of the
chlmneys These were the smoke.
There were trees about Not any par
ticular trees, because ! don't know one
tree from another and couldn't bother
to describe them If l did. Just trees
with bright blue and green and choco
late foliage like the loveliest wool
work There was a bowwow outside
the house, ana inside II a fat cat sat
on mat. But ut last the hero got
tired OF living there, so .he called for
his gee-gee. Gug.gug Yes Miss Bar
lock, ! did mean that TO be typed.
$50 down 1t goes Chapter 2-About
His Gee-gee.- Unless you were told
you would not have known II for n
gee-gee at all II was the sort Of gee
gee you see when It Is long way Off
and you are rather shortsighted, / But
II was a gee-gee right enough. It had
all the essentials of gee-gee-iness. If
It hadn't our hero wouldn't have been
seen with II. And so he said goodby
TO his bowwow and the fat cat, and he
got on his goegee, and his travels be-
gan. Goo-goo.
81 insist on having that 'goo-goo'
typed. Miss Barlock." told her ITS
part of my technique. You are merely
one Of the public, so yoh mustn't try
to dictate to me how ] Should express
my temperament. Besides, I'm dlctat-
ing TO you Chapter. 3vHis Adyen-
lures Among Masterpieces.
"'Well, aud so he rode and he rode
TIL at last he came 20 country which
was entirely composed Of little primat
ic smuts, so chat you couldn't make
out what il was Ike unless you went
ever such a distaqce OF, and then II
was Disappointing So he didn't stay
there very long. And the smuts did
not suit his gee gee at all, SO on they
went TO the next place. But the gee
gee wasn't very well even there.
Here Miss BiTlock ventured the crit
clsm that so fnr my novel did not ap
pear to have much plot, III has none
whatever" said with some pride
"and it's n4 going 10 have. I'm de.
plotting lifefas I've observed it. Have
] detectedl ANY kind Of plot governing
my own ~ others experlencesg l have
not Thyn why. ! ask you. Miss Bar
lock, SHOULD | undertake. the mental
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