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The Big Town
How I and the Mrs. go to New York to see life and get Katie a husband
by Ring W. Lardner
[Illustrations by May Wilson Preston]
First published 1920
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Copyright 1921.
Cast of Characters
KATE... a small-town girl with big league ideas... and $75,000!
And these are some of the characters Katie met in the big city...
Francis Griffin... a bachelor who cleaned up on Wall Street.
Trumbull... no matter how old you'd guess he was, he was older.
Ritchey... a chauffeur with looks, a limousine, and lots of free time.
Lady Perkins... a society dame who could really put on the dog.
Bob Codd... a famous aviator, until a little something went wrong.
Herbert Daley... he owned a string of race horses and developed a taste for women.
Sid Mercer... a good-looking jockey who didn't have much strength of character.
Jimmy Ralston... a comedian who didn't think too much of himself.
And here are some of the REAL characters you'll meet...
William Jennings Bryan... he always looked like somebody was tickling his feet.
Ziggy... he ran a little show.
Ed Wynn... he borrowed a couple of ideas, just to get a flop off his hands.
Man o' War... he could run, too.
Burleigh Grimes... the Dodgers' spitball pitcher was just a prop in a play.
The Big Town
I Quick Returns
THIS is just a clipping from one of the New York papers; a little kidding piece that they had in about me two years ago. It says:
Hoosier Cleans Up in Wall Street. Employees of the brokerage firm of H. L. Krause & Co. are author