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Said John Farrar, Bookman editor: "The man who created the famous Brownies was one of the gentlest and quaintest people I have ever met. His whole life seemed to be tied up in the absurd and entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he...
"I remember a famous occasion when the proof of a so-called divorce scandal, which afterward became the subject of a whole nation's political whispering, was first brought into my office. We had an advisory committee during that campaign and I called them together and presented the alleged...
"I remember once that a certain candidate for President . . . had tried to make thirty thousand hear two of his opening paragraphs. A hundred feet away a man with a ministerial beard, an Adam's apple of prominence, a dyspeptic face, dressed in black, six feet four tall, with a...
"All the speakers had pretended to pay no attention to this heckler, until Henry Allen, since then Governor of Kansas, came down from his hotel, and appeared, as I remember it, to second the nomination of Roosevelt. He, therefore, had no forewarning when this melancholy heckler with the peevish mortuary...
" 'Be careful of your plurals when you're in Boston. It's octopi, my friend. Remember you're in the pie belt.'"