"Your circumstances seem to have changed. The last I heard of you, you were a sailor on a tramp steamer."
"And after that a waiter. And after that a movie extra and a rather indifferent pugilist. I was also, for a time, a bouncer in a New York saloon. That was one of my failures. I started gaily out one night to bounce an obstreperous client, and, unfortunately, he bounced me. This seemed to cause the boss to lose confidence in my technique, and shortly afterwards I sailed for England to carve out a new career."
(from Summer Moonshine, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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