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THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE

if it won't bore you, with what I was trying to say when this bell-boy interrupted us:

Now what I was starting to say was: I heard a story, here about a year ago, no, thirteen months ago it must be now—a story that I wanted to tell you gentlemen—

But oh say, before I start that, I want to explain—

I felt that Mr. Laks here, I felt he kind of wondered about it when I drew two cards, this last hand.

Well, here was the idea, and you may be interested in the psychology of it, and as Billy Dodd will tell you, there's no profession where you got to use more psychology than in the office-supply business.

Well, when I got this hand I figured that Mr. Laks—

Excuse me, Mr. Laks, for not calling you by your first name. I don't want you for one moment