[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 11 (reply #14).

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[Tax-chick]

George, you’re going to wish you’d just gone to Newport.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from May 17 (reply #14).]

May 20. . . . Suicide of Herbert (“Frank Forester”), an ancient sporting pal of Tom Griffing and Fred Anthon, whose brother Phil all but witnessed the act. Herbert was an uncommonly poor devil but a man of very scholarly culture, and there are elements of profoundest tragedy in the transaction.*

The ambrosial Hurlbut has gone to Europe at last.

*Henry William Herbert (1807-1858), prolific and talented English-born writer, now best remembered for his books on field sports and horses, had made an unhappy marriage, and been deserted by his wife.

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