From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!romine
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: ABCDFGHI....
Article-I.D.: seismo.233
Posted: Wed Feb 23 19:44:01 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 06:36:46 1983

	Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hills'
manufacturing district on a Saturday night.  A busy day's traffic had
had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got
along without having to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out of City
Hall is a shining mark for any politician.  And so, coming to Broadway,
a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation
Army unit carrying on among Broadways's night shopping crowds.  Gadsby,
walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back towards him, just
finishing a long, soulful oration, saying: --

	"... and I can say this to you, for I know what I am talking
	about; for I was brought up in a pool of liquor!!"

As that army group was starting to march on, with this girl turning
towards Gadsby, His Honor had to gasp, astonishingly: --

	"Why!  Mary Astor!!"

	"Oh!  If it isn't Mayor Gadsby!  I don't run across you much,
now-a-days.  How is Lady Gadsby holding up during this awful war?"



		--- From the 1939 novel Gadsby, by Ernest Vincent Wright.
		    The entire 50,000 word novel was written without a 
		    single word containing the letter `e'.