tinned soups, baseball bats, shampoo powders, sardines, vacuum cleaners, Virginian cigarettes, hair dyes; to join the boards of limited liability companies; to send copies of his works to the Library of the Seventh Particular Presbyterian Church of Running Horse, Wy.; to write his signature upon stamped photo-card enclosed and oblige and return; to allow publishers other than Messrs. Capper and Ironsides to handle him; and so on.
To none of these invitations did Dunkle reply, but he sent them all along to the Vicarage with his compliments. Then the Archdeacon would sit down at his desk and write: "The Author of 'Trixie' regrets that, owing to pressure of engagements, he is unable to accept the kind invitation of," etc., or "The Author of 'Trixie' thanks Messrs. Lomax for the handsome gift of their patent braces (to hand this
