Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As long as I can't be at home, said Harry Fleming, I'd rather be here than anywhere in the world I can think of Rather said his companion, Dick Mercer. I say, Harry, it must be funny to be an American Harry laughed heartily. I'd be angry, Dick, he said, finally, if that wasn't so English - and so funny Still, I suppose that's one reason you Britishers are as big an empire as you are. You think it's sort of funny and a bit of a misfortune, don't you, to be anything but English ?