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...France, and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters. Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting-rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions. The little opera-boujfe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into...

...France, and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters. Gentleman adventurers throng the lished by Doubleday, Page & company for Funk & Wagnalls company" Henry O." O. Henry( oiling and warns them not to break their toys. And with these changes comes also the small adventurer,...

...France, and Sicily now bag its smaíl change across their counters. Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting-rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions. The little opéra-bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into...

...railway concessions. The little opera-bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until someday a big, silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys." 15 One of the first twentieth-century US authors to penetrate the surface of this superficial version...

..."proem," the formidable combination of economic and military imperialism was too much for the isthmians: "The little opera-bouffe nations play at government...the offing and warns them not to break their toys." 44 We can see the influence of the banana kings—real-world imperial selves—in an evolving subplot...