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The Poet and the Peasant 79
got you beat a crosstown block in the way of Elizabethan
scenery and mechanical accessories. Let it b)e skiddoo
for yours. Nay, I know of no gilded halls where one may
bet a patrol wagon on the ace."
Rebuffed again by the great city that is so swift to detect
artificialities, IHaylocks sat upon the curb) and presented
his thoughts to hold a conference.
"It's my clothes," said he; durnedd if it ain't. They
think I'm a hayseed and won't have nothin' to do with me.
Nobody never made fun of this hat in Ulster County. I
guess if you want folks to notice you in New York you
must dress up like they do."
So Havlocks went shopping in the bazaars where men
spake through their noses and rubbed their hands and ran
the tape line ecstatically over the bulge in his inside pocket
where reposed a red nubbin of corn with an even number
of rows. And messengers hearing parcels and boxes
streamed to his hotel on Broadway within the lights of
Long Acre.
At 9 o'clock in the evening one descended to the side-
walk whom Ulster County would have foresworn. Bright
tan were his shoes; his hat the latest block. Iis light
gray trousers were deeply creased; a gay blue silk hand-
kerchief flapped from the breast pocket of his elegant
English walking coat. His collar might have graced a
laundry window; his blond hair was trimmed close; the
wisp of hay was gone.I __
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