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WORLD GOES BY By ULYSSES"

HAS it ever becurred to yous; When we go home, small unnotic

We wipe "Yes,

kerb, I'm not going to hit you Hyde standing outside. has it ever occurred to you that you our feet on the mat, have as much right as the next man dear," and obediently go upstairs for the library book. Then we sit be wrong There are too many of us pat in the second best armchair and tering about scraping our feet dream. We are the bantam battal- apologetically on everybody's mat, ion, the phantom battalion, the boys But we always passing other people the whom the medals miss. salt, who somehow feel guilty and hold the fort for the wife, and frustrated because we are not so watch the baby and in some obscure dominating as the strong men in way are the kings of the earth. It the advertisements. Take heart, says so in the magazines. You knew little brother I, too, am stumpy, it all along? I'm so sorry, air, I I, too, apologise at once when large really do apologise, I am so sorry, men tread on my feet. I, too, am If there's anything I can do, any continually passing the salt. But thing at all...

I have just read that you and I In the States they have begun de are the cream of civilisation.

livering kisses by wire for the We are the Empire-makers, we benefit, I fear, of men like us. You are the builders of dreams. We have send the kiss by telegram and the been laughed at through the centelegraph company sees that there's turies, imprisoned often, martyred someone at the other end to take sometimes and always derided. But the rap. It's just a shade too we are Edison, the news butcher on simple. You don't even have to kiss the railroad; we are Henry Ford the telegraph company at your end! and the dreamer who watched They think because we can sublim- steam coming out of a kettle, the late our fury at a fight, we can ex- boy Watt in his cottage. We are pend our love by cable. No, no, Zola, who dared defend liberty. We NO. It's too expensive We shall are Newton, Galileo and Sir Tho stick to our shy, little xxx's at the mas More. And now, since we are end of the letter!

famous, we are being psycho-analys-

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ed. They have discovered that Hints for little men. What do we are the man whose mind is fill you when an 18st. battleship, with ed with murder at football matches dyed hair and glassy eyes, snarls: and big fights. We are the man "Why the devil didn't you lead who shouts, "Full back? Garn! He trumps, sir, if I may ask?" Bow wouldn't make a back for a dress meekly and murmur. waistcoat" We are the frantic love you, Malam voice that cries, "Kill him, Sailor! every time! What do you do if a the Use your left, man, use your left!" fierce, middle-ag And the psychologist, the cunning bus shoats: Why don't you give devil, points out maliciously that me your seat, sir, if I may ask?” had we been the only man at the Bow meekly and marmur: "I only match, the solitary spectator at do it for elderly ladies, Mademoi- the fight, we would not have dared selle." What do you do if some- itter a word. But with the crowd one larger than yourself swipes we become homicidal, we become your beer "by accident,” and you Innatics for an hour. We live mad-haven't any money left? Personal- ly in the heroes we watch, purging ly Ive no idea I just want to our system of its pent-up hell.

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