Gootes

"Needs a transfusion," remarked Gootes as we stood on the sidewalk before it.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes, unjointing disproportioned length carelessly against the sink to the peril of several jars of specimens, didnt reply.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes appeared to argue with him for he shook his head obstinately and went on using his camera.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes answered with difficult slowness, but he fumbled and halted before long and abandoning the Central

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

"Impatiently I await the rescue of fair Dinkmans from this enchanted keep," murmured Gootes, vainly trying to balance his pipe on the back of his hand.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

I thought Gootes 'persistence less a devotion to duty than the idle curiosity which makes grown men gape at a steamshovel.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Stolon, rhizome and culm became words replacing crankshaft and piston in the popular vocabulary; the puerile reports Gootes fabricated under my name as the man responsible for the phenomenon were syndicated in newspapers from coast to coast, and a query as to rates was received from the _Daily Mail_.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes had not made the first move to leave I should have done so myself.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes, and indeed I have heard far less outcry over the destruction of historic landmarks than was raised when the grass obscured the celebrated footprints.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Gootes produced a reporter's badge from the captain's bars.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940