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In the Driftway
July 30, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on drifter. The Drifter has just put through a trying half-hour composing a bread-and-butter letter, or, as he prefers to call it a "Collins." The Drifter deplores the custom of sitting down, immediately one has left a friendly roof, and committing to paper a series of polite nothings. Let no one accuse the Drifter of ingratitude in these remarks. It is not that he never wishes to thank his host or hostess for kindness done and pleasure given. It is simply that he sometimes feels a longing to do just that very thing, but he knows that whatever he can say will sound like no more than what each and every child is taught to write after the dullest of visits.

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DRIFTERS; ROGUES & vagabonds; INGRATITUDE; KINDNESS; HUMANITY; HOMELESS persons
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