“Ah, gentlemen, you are interested in literature, are you not?”

“Why, sure.”

“How is the literary movement in the West, gentlemen?”

“Fine. Moving right along in great shape.”

“I suppose you enjoy Emerson, gentlemen?”

“Why, yes, I suppose so. What paper’s he on now?”

“And do you not love Holmes, the dear old Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?”

“You bet! There’s nobody like Sherlock for a good, rattling detective story.”