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In the Driftway
July 16, 1930 issue

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When the Drifter is very hot, as for a week in New York he has been, he thinks of penguins. These delightful birdslive in the coldest parts of the earth, where no vegetation and in some places no other animal life can live. It is a curious thing that under these very rigorous conditions, the penguin should resemble nothing so much as a well-fed bank president on his way to a meeting of his most important board of directors. The penguin is pompous and slow, he walks with dignity for he cannot fly, he has a white waistcoat and a gray cutaway, and his expression of solemnity is that of the bank president at his best.

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DRIFTERS; PENGUINS; DIGNITY; BIRDS; ROGUES & vagabonds; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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