Parting Guests 



quickly made an erasure and scratched out the 

 roof. Unfortunately, however, my offer of hos- 

 pitahty had been put in more permanent form. 

 I could not uproot it. Whenever it met with an 

 eager acceptance, I could only rush forth with 

 a broom and proclaim by acts of persistent dis- 

 courtesy that my invitation had been recalled. 



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