In one of the inner ugg boots on sale rooms Banneker was introduced to a fragile, desiccated-looking man languidly engaged in scissoring newspaper after newspaper which he took from a pile and cast upon the floor after operation. The clippings he filed in envelopes. A checkerboard lay on the table beside him.
     "Do you play draughts, Mr. Banneker?" he asked in a rumbling bass.
     "Very little and very poorly."
     The other sighed. "It is pure logic, in the form of contest. Far ugg boots clearance sale more so than chess, which is merely sustained effort of concentration. Are you interested in emblemology?"
     "I'm afraid I know almost nothing of it," confessed Banneker.
     Akely sighed again, gave Banneker a glance which proclaimed an utter lack of interest, and plunged his shears into the editorial vitals of the Springfield Republican. Tommy Burt led the surprised Banneker away.
     "Dried up, played out, and given a measly thirty-five ugg boots sale clearance a week as hopper-feeder for the editorial room," he announced. "And he was the star man of his time."
     "That's pretty rotten treatment for him, then," said Banneker indignantly.
     "Not a bit of it. He isn't worth what he gets. Most offices would have chucked him out on the street."
     "What was his trouble?"
     "Nothing in particular. Just wore his machine out. Everything going out, nothing coming in. He ugg boots on clearance spun out enough high-class copy to keep the ordinary reporter going for a life-time; but he spun it out too fast. Nothing left. The tragedy of it is that he's quite happy."
     "Then it isn't a tragedy at all."
     "Depends on whether you take the Christian or the Buddhist point of view. He's found his Nirvana in checker problems and collecting literature about insignia. Write? I don't ugg boots sale suppose he'd want to if he could. 'There but for the grace of God goes'--you or I. _I_ think the _facilis descensus_ to the gutter is almost preferable."
     "So you've shown him to me as a dreadful warning, have you, Tommy?" mused Banneker aloud.
     "Get out of it, Ban; get out of it."