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of them were really very funny, the Jewish comedians 

 in particular, and the shows paid into the bargain. I 

 have put up the idea since to many men in England, 

 but they could not see them paying in London. Well, 

 if they wouldn't pay there they wouldn't anywhere 

 else in England, that's a pretty sure thing. 



On we went ; Queensberry had to go on his own to 

 one or two neighbouring towns ; then he went to see 

 the finals for the baseball, while I occupied my time 

 in taking an office and interesting myself in organising 

 one or two syndicates. One was to exploit a news- 

 paper, the name of which Queensberry and I agreed 

 should be the Fan. It was a significant title, apart 

 from suggesting the sporting expression " Fan," which 

 means " Fanatics " after any particular game. The 

 other show was to be the sale of a property on an 

 island in Canada, which was to be an enormous 

 sporting club estate called the " Queensberry Club." 

 Queensberry went to England for Christmas, and in 

 January the first number of the Fan appeared. It 

 was an unpretentious but bright little sheet, and if it 

 pleased the men who set it up and made it up at our 

 printers there must have been something in it. It was 

 entirely a break-away, however, from what Chicago 

 had expected, and was not received with much 

 enthusiasm. 



Tlien came the trouble. The Post Office authorities, 

 on whom one is so much dependent for mailing a paper 

 everywhere, were displeased at certain paragraphs, 

 describing them as " unfit for publication." It was 

 in vain that I protested that these paragraphs had 

 already appeared in my paper, the Sport Set, and had 

 been sold by all the reputable wholesale newsagents 

 of the United Kingdom, for I confess that although 

 there was original matter, and plenty of it, in the little 



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