...ain Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told U... ...l over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. Paul? Why, don’t you like it? I don’t know of any lovelier view... ... something to say about run- ning Gopher Prairie, but you take it in a big city of two- three hundred thousand, and I’m just one flea on the dog’s bac... ... Tales? Corking yarn! Gosh, the fel- low that wrote it certainly can sling baseball slang!” The others tried to look literary. Harry Haydock offered, ... ...some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had painted sc... ...re small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues. There was no sound of sea or winds; no softness of whispers nor of f... ..., and rattled away. The small boy and his sister ate grass and sighed. The players pretended to be exhilarated by practising service, but they startle... ... VI Dusk on a snowy December afternoon. The sleeper which would connect at Kansas City with the California train rolled out of St. Paul with a chick-a... ...l Club with uni- 427 Sinclair Lewis forms of purple and gold. The amateur baseball-team hired a semi-professional pitcher from Des Moines, and made a...

...d ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

...s with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col- ored like mud. The city was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting th... ...ut in greeting a chorus cheerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the a... ... He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver... ...ion. It has an active and smoke-misted billiard room, it is represented by baseball and football teams, and in the pool and the gymnasium a tenth of t... ...ceful tappers. They run 1-2 under the wire. Provin and Adams will blow the blues in their laugh skit “Hootch Mon!” Something doing, boys. Listen to wh... ...chine-tool and soap products, Pittsburg and Birming- ham with their steel, Kansas City and Minneapolis and Omaha that open their bountiful gates on th... ...same good jolly kind of guff, ‘bout autos, politics and stuff and baseball players of renown that Nice Guys talk in my home town! “Then when I entered... ...son, and Mayor Prout. The young negro boot- black hummed “The Camp Meeting Blues” and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so ta...