"
"That's the idea," Harry said; "you've got to get kind of dreamy. You're
getting the hang of it all right. Over in France one night I saw the house
I live in at home. There was a new chicken coop. Once I saw Teddy
Roosevelt."
"One good thing," Brent said in that funny way he had; "the things you see
in the fire don't cost anything."
Harry said, "Yes, but they're going up like everything else. They go up in
smoke."
"Like everything else," Gaylong said.
"There you go," Harry said; "Hard Luck Gaylong, the boy grouch. How do you
know when you may strike luck. Look at Charlie Collins over there on the
west front; ran plunk into his own brother while he was on sentry duty;
brother said, 'H'lo Charlie'--just like that. Neither one knew the other
was in France. You've been looking at maps and things and you believe
everything the geography tells you. I've been all around this world and you
can take it from me, its about the size of a coconut. Look how Stanley
met Livingstone in South Africa. You take a tip from me and keep that
newspaper picture."
Brent said, "I'd paste it in a scrapbook only we haven't got a scrapbook.
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