His trip to Boston was rather a burden. It took 18 hours and the buffet car failed them. On the way back Stoddard spent a quiet day in New York with Reginald Birch. Bishop John J. Keane produced a clipping from a Washington paper containing verses of Stoddard lately in the Current Literature entitled " A Toast". The verses read at a bachelor dinner have crept into print. A foul minded woman saw something nasty in them and has frightened the Bishop. Stoddard never wrote anything more innocently and yet the Bishop has pronounced them "lascivious". Stoddard's mind is not yet corrupted and his imagination is not tainted. He has concluded that the only safe way to escape the annoyance of the curious crows is to publish nothing at all. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.