His autocracy had been transformed into a system of feudal baronies, with president Fitzsimmons as the slack-handed overseer.

If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

We still feel a kudo for one of us is a kudo for the group, as we have nurtured, edited, and prodded each other for much of our writing careers.