42 The Sort of Life We Lead 



of oysters, and he smoked cigars and threw 

 shells into the water for the rest of the after- 

 noon. When I met him a month later in the 

 dusty, miserable city of New York, he said that 

 he attributed queer pains in his back to that 

 oystering experience. Some men are blind to 

 the opportunities of this life. 



