THE
ABOUNDING
AMERICAN
BY
T. W. H. CROSLAND
Author of
“Lovely Woman” and “The Unspeakable Scot”
London:
A. F. THOMPSON & CO.
92 Fleet Street, E.C.
1907
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| The Proposition | 7 |
| Millionaires | 19 |
| Humourists | 29 |
| The American Woman | 37 |
| Literature | 45 |
| The President | 55 |
| Advertisement | 61 |
| The Pea-nut Mind | 71 |
| The Drama | 81 |
| Sport | 91 |
| Hogs | 101 |
| Verdict | 109 |
COPYRIGHT 1907
BY
A. F. THOMPSON
IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND IN
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
All Rights Reserved
CHAPTER I
The Proposition
“And what, prithee, hath overtakenGuy?”
“Guy—why Guy diced anddrabbed and ruffled away his inheritance,and to save his neck took shipping forthe tobacco plantations where, they say,he married a daughter of Lo, the poorIndian, and none hath since heard of him.”
This is the kind of talk that one couldhear in the clubs of London a matterof, say, two hundred and fifty yearsago. In plain terms, Guy, poor devil,being a wastrel,—and a broken wastrelat that—had betaken himself to America,there probably to found one of the “fineold Virginia families” of which Americanwriters, and particularly American fictionalwriters, are so prone to babble.
America, of course, was really started