Friends and neighbors; It seems to me that later in life our old friend often took to ending paragraphs with the phrase "And so on," as in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. I believe it suggests the futile and repetitive nature of various things. . . . Can LIST-members provide me with more examples of this phenomenon? The real stumper would be the first appearance of this phrasing in MT, but that is another matter . . . Best, --Hal B. Harold K. Bush Saint Louis University