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Show Correcting a Blunder. j Recently at a dinner in Washington a young novelist of Boston was seated nextto an effusive girl from Indiana. Athe first opportunity the fair In-dainian In-dainian turned to her neighbor and gushingly exclaimed: "Oh, I am so glad to meet you! To think I should meet an author! It seems so wonderful that you should have written that lovely story." Whereupon, observing a strained expression ex-pression on the face of her friend, the author, the girl from Indiana perceived her mistake and hastened to add: "Of course, you understand!" (With an uncertain smile.) "It always seems so perfectly wonderful to me that anybody any-body can write anything, no matter how poor it is!" |