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In the Driftway
June 18, 1930 issue

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In the Drifter's early back-yard days a cork was one of the minor mysteries. Here was neither wood nor rubber, yet it looked like the one and reacted like the other. He never got around to asking about it. Children, a Drifter has long since concluded, ask relatively few questions of their elders in view of the innumerable queries that rise between four and fourteen. Most of them rise and are forgotten in those long solitudinous hours that children spend. Drifter accepted cork much as he accepted rubber balls and all-day suckers. In fact, he never realized what cork was and where it came from until one day many years later when he happened to take a bus ride from Seville to Algeciras.

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QUESTIONS & answers; RUBBER; WOOD; CORK; ALGECIRAS (Spain); SPAIN
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