Abstract

In the Driftway

It is a long time since the author has actually been restricted to the nine to five schedule; nevertheless, he finds himself still so unwise as to make morning appointments, and his friends still so unwise as to expect him to keep them. Thus, when he has engaged himself for ten-thirty, he feels the icy hand of that impertinent hour intruding on him all night; it drags him out of bed just in time to make his appointment if he hurries for it; it mislays his most necessary garments and ties knots in his shoe-laces; it delays the milkman with the morning's offering, and clamps itself coldly about the rolls; it holds up the subway train, it pours freezing water on the slippery streets, and snatches the last morning newspaper off the newsstand from under his nose.