Just at this moment the other suddenly remembers that he would have
avoided all this tomfoolery if he had only kept to the right, and
tries to make good on this hypothesis. The result is that they bump
into each other violently and begin side-stepping again. After another
round or two of Terpsichorean gymnastics one of them breaks through
the other's guard and escapes and each continues on his belated way,
thinking what an infernal idiot the other is.
[Illustration: "Oof!"]
"I have known men who gained international renown for their
strategy and 'sang froid' on the battlefield; men whose calmness
and deliberation have averted many a financial crisis and men whose
marvelous executive capacity and keen insight into human affairs have
won them great fortunes. I have seen these same men trying to pass
other pedestrians in a narrow hallway and act in a way which would
make a lunatic ashamed of himself.
"A drummer, who travels for a large Eastern jobbing concern, was once
entering the establishment of a firm which always bought heavily
from his house.
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