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E.B. White: "I'm glad your fall from the roof did no serious damage. A man who puts a porch on a henhouse is, I'm afraid, asking for it."

Edmund Ware Smith's response: "You are due a measure of cool reproof for your slurring thrust at one who puts a porch on his henhouse. I put that porch on to give my henhouse distinction. Do you know of any other henhouse which admiring neighbors call, 'The Chicken Hilton.'"

A book of letters has never made me laugh so much! All the talk about henhouses is such a delight to read:

In one of Edmund Ware Smith's letters: "I am the only man anywhere in these parts with E.B. White as a henhouse consultant."

Letters between two great writers - lots of humor and down east scenery!