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FLYING MEN
looked into, a friend familiar by close acquaintanceship.
Upon a time I mentioned some such thought to an American aviator, who nodded youthful head and answered in this manner:
"The best fellows generally go first, and such a lot are gone now that there'll be a whole bunch of them waiting to say 'Hello, old sport!' so — what's it matter, anyway?"