CHAPTER SEVEN

Andrew is just as thin as I am fat, and his clothes hang on him in

the most comical way. He is very tall and shambling, wears a ragged

beard and a broad Stetson hat, and suffers amazingly from hay fever

in the autumn. (In fact, his essay on "Hay Fever" is the best thing

he ever wrote, I think.) As he came striding up the road I noticed

how his trousers fluttered at the ankles as the wind plucked at

them. The breeze curled his beard back under his chin and his face

was quite dark with anger. I couldn't help being amused; he looked

so funny.

"The Sage looks like Bernard Shaw," whispered Mifflin.

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