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Counter Point. In Omaha, Neb., Post Office Clerk Neil Chapman braced himself for the remarks of a lady who approached him with one of the office's pens. She wanted the pen point's name & number because it wrote so well...
...notable occasion he was asked to investigate a home run made by his friend Chapman on what some spectators claimed was a foul ball and took leave of Byron, remarking, "Guess I'll be pretty busy looking into this homer of Chapman's." Byron affected deafness...
...Keats's Irish terrier, Byrne, failed to come home one night. Chapman found the poet playing the violin, and remarked on his composure. "Keats smiled . . . 'And why should I not fiddle,' he asked, 'while Byrne roams...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...kicked the dog and carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...