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THE CALL OF AMERICA 



But what wine ! It wasn't exactly bad, but so 

 meaningless ; there was no character about it, yet we 

 used to pay five dollars a bottle (one pound), and lap 

 it without the inspiration there is from real wine. 

 The new-comer to a table where others were gathered 

 needed no apology ; he simply sat down and paid for 

 the next bottle of the '' round." That is where 

 America differs so : the man who comes uninvited in 

 England may be a supper snatcher ; in America he 

 installs himself as the host for the moment. 



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