American Notes By Rudyard Kipling








































































































































 -  Well, you see, he began by keeping
a saloon, etc.  I prefer to believe that my informants are
treating me - Page 25
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"Well, You See, He Began By Keeping A Saloon," Etc.

I prefer to believe that my informants are treating me as in the old sinful days in India I was used to treat the wandering globe-trotter.

They declare that they speak the truth, and the news of dog politics lately vouchsafed to me in groggeries inclines me to believe, but I won't. The people are much too nice to slangander as recklessly as I have been doing.

Besides, I am hopelessly in love with about eight American maidens - all perfectly delightful till the next one comes into the room.

O-Toyo was a darling, but she lacked several things - conversation for one. You cannot live on giggles. She shall remain unmarried at Nagasaki, while I roast a battered heart before the shrine of a big Kentucky blonde, who had for a nurse when she was little a negro "mammy."

By consequence she has welded on California beauty, Paris dresses, Eastern culture, Europe trips, and wild Western originality, the queer, dreamy superstitions of the quarters, and the result is soul-shattering. And she is but one of many stars.

Item, a maiden who believes in education and possesses it, with a few hundred thousand dollars to boot and a taste for slumming.

Item, the leader of a sort of informal salon where girls congregate, read papers, and daringly discuss metaphysical problems and candy - a sloe-eyed, black-browed, imperious maiden she.

Item, a very small maiden, absolutely without reverence, who can in one swift sentence trample upon and leave gasping half a dozen young men.

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