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|terrified. |
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|"Have you got a boy they call 'Missouri?'" inquired |
|the watchman. |
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|"We did have ten minutes ago," replied the manager. |
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|The watchman continued: "That 'Missouri' feller came|
|over here and said he had to go to one of the |
|offices. We don't allow no one up at that office at |
|this hour and I told him he couldn't go." |
| |
|"Yes, yes," said the manager. |
| |
|"Well," said the watchman, "he said he would go, and|
|I had to pull my gun on him." |
| |
|"But you didn't shoot my messenger," exclaimed the |
|manager. |
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|"No," meekly came the response over the wire, "but I|
|want my gun back." |

=282. Uniqueness of Style.=--Again, a writer will resort to uniqueness
of form or style to get his effect.

| =HIS WIFE, SHE WENT AWAY= |
| |
| =And He Did a Little Entertaining, Which |
| Leads Up to This Story= |
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|Mrs. Gladys I. Fick visited in California. |
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|Mr. Fick entertained while she was away. |
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|Mrs. Fick found it out. |
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|And got a divorce. |
| |
|Yesterday. |

=283. Unity of Impression.=--Most frequently, however, the effort is to
obtain unity of impression through close adherence to a single tone or
effect. The story by Frank Ward O'Malley on page 225 has already been
cited