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Manuscript page from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock, 1912.
Reproduced with the permission of the Stephen Leacock Museum/Archive.


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Hear the clatter as we pass the semaphores and switch lights! We must be close in now!

What? it feels nervous and strange to be coming here again after all these years. It must indeed. No, don't bother to look at the reflection of your face in the window-pane shadowed by the night outside. Nobody could tell you now after all these years. Your face has changed in these long years of money-getting in the city. Perhpas if you had come back now and again, just at odd times it wouldn't