: A Hoosier holiday by Dreiser Theodore Booth Franklin Illustrator - New York (State) Description and travel; Pennsylvania Description and travel; Ohio Description and travel; Dreiser Theodore 1871-1945 Travel; Booth Franklin 1874-1948 Travel; Indiana Descri

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e and buggy, the latter containing three milk cans all labeled "Sunset Farm Dairy Co."; a humpnosed, thinbodied, angular grocer, or general store keeper, sweeping off his sidewalk and dusting off his counters; various citizens in "vests" and shirt sleeves crossing the heavily oiled roads at various angles and exchanging the customary American morning greetings:

"Howdy, Jake?"

"Hi, Si, been down t' the barn yet?"

"Did Ed get that wrench he was lookin' for?"

"Think so, yep."

"Well, look at old Skeeter Cheevers comin' along, will yuh"--this last apropos of some hobbling septuagenarian with a willow basket.

I heaved a kind of sigh of relief. I was out of New York and back home, as it were--even here at the Delaware River--so near does the west come to the east.

Sitting in willow chairs in front of a garage where Speed was looking for a special kind of oil which evidently the more pretentious hotel could not or would not supply, Franklin and I discussed the things we had heard and seen. I think I drew a parallel between this hotel here and similar hotels at Monte Carlo and Nice, where the prices would be no higher, if so high.

It so happened that in the morning, when I had been dressing, there had been a knocking at the door of the next room, and listening I had heard a man's voice calling "Ma! Ma! Have you got an undershirt in there for me?"

I looked out to see a tall, greyheaded man of sixty or more, very intelligent and very forceful looking, a real American business chief.

"Yes," came the answer after a moment. "Wait a minute. I think there's one in Ida's satchel. Is Harry up yet?"

"Yes, he's gone out."

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