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Summer 1964 • Vol. XXVI No. 3 • Five Stories from Hot Countries |

The Wog

“What can I do for you gentlemen?”

Mr. Sen asked the question without looking up. He pushed the cleaner through the stem of his pipe and twirled it around. As he blew through it, his eye fell on the rose and marigold garlands in the hands of his callers. So they knew that he had been married that morning! He had tried to keep the news quiet. But, as he had learned so often before, nothing remained a secret for long in his nosey native land.

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