the cotton-mill business in New Bedford, but as might have been expected his love of freedom revolted at that and he spent a few months with the gas drillers, then a soldier right through from the bell tents of Camplife to the dug-outs in the war zone, he has breathed the breath of battle and suffered the hardships of actual warfare. He has heard shells whistle and crash and machine guns (his own) rattle. He has seen men killed at their guns and has had his own companions blown to pieces by the same shell that by a miracle spared him. He can talk most interestingly on the manners of the people of France & England and tell more about the cities of Germany & Great Britain than most books. He has very keen powers of observation and as he has read very little his impressions & expressions are original and unconventional as indeed are all his activities. Because of that unconventionality he is held in disrepute by the good people of Dover although I must admire him for it at least I think I do, maybe I just admire him in spite of it. Of course I can't help agreeing with people when they shake their heads and say it is too bad Quintin is content to waste his time selling ice cream and tempting the public with cupie dolls to throw at stuffed cats instead of turning

his time & talents to some account and yet I would hate to take him to task about it for he would argue "Why should I forgo the pleasures & freedom I now enjoy in order to be a slave so that when I am old I could say I know a good trade and have a little money in ther bank for a rainy day. As it is I have more money to spend than you have and have some in the bank too =besides running tha=e chanc eof making more and my time is my own." I mioght as an older brother should call Quiont aside and say "You know, old biy, yopu shouldn't knock around with that bunch of toughs you do and should leave the liquor business alone as it is now unlawful," but Quint would smile and politely undertake to prov deto me the very obvious fact that although he ahs consulted consorted with tkughs more or less for the last ten years and he is far from being a tough himself a and aas for the liquor business, according to his cod eof morals it is no crime to defy a law that he consider sunjust and mad eby a fickle democracy that he doesn't know its own mind for two years hand running. I know rtere arte answers to thes ewarguments but Quint. has his ow n ideas and and as he fasr as the fundamental principles of honor atre concerned