graph, and the more peaks there were in it the better he was pleased, for he thought that at last the K. K. K. were beginning to fall for Tolstoy.
At any rate, he is much better now, and asks me to write to you for him. I must say that I think you picked a fine Advertising Manager for your Ginger Cubes: I have never seen such an enthusiastic fellow. The specimen drawings for car cards that you sent him are pinned up on a screen beside the bed, and he hardly takes his eyes off them. He has had all the nurses in the ward munching the Ginger Cubes, or Digestive Dice as he likes to call them, and is asking me to make a note of their opinions. He says he plans an interesting lay-out under the caption
COMMENTS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ON THE GINGER CUBES
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I must admit that I find the Cubes very tasty and refreshing.
To show you that he is really picking up, I will tell you that this morning he asked me to send out to the nearest newsstand for a number of magazines and papers, which he has been looking through with close attention. He brightened up very much when he found a copy of a new magazine called "The International Interpreter." He says for you to be sure to get hold of it, as it is edited by a very clever man called Frederick Dixon and contains a poem about Ginger. He asked me to copy down one stanza, as it might be useful for "copy"—
A merest little box of tin,
But sharp of tongue are the spirits that wait,
Bewrapped in their sugary garments within,
Spirits of ginger, dryly sedate.
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