We arrived just in
time to meet our young friend coming out. He came hurriedly, using
his hands and his feet both, his feet for traveling and his hands
for rubbing purposes. Immediately behind him was a large, coarse
man using language that stamped him as a man who had outgrown the
spirit of youth and was preeminently out of touch with the ideals
and aims of boyhood.
At that period it seemed to me and to the Thompson boy, who was
moved to speak feelingly on the subject, and in fact to all of us,
that excessive slimness might have its drawbacks. Since that time
several of us have had occasion to change our minds. With the
passage of years we have fleshened up, and now we know better. The
last time I saw the Thompson boy he was known as Excess-Baggage
Thompson. His figure in profile suggested a man carrying a roll-top
desk in his arms and his face looked like a face that had refused
to jell and was about to run down on his clothes. He spoke longingly
of the days of his youth and wondered if the shape of his knees had
changed much since the last time he saw them.
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