Vansuyther van Puyster, father of Clarence in The Pitcher and the Plutocrat;
silver-haired, not given to thinking, descendant of an original van
Puyster who acquired a square mile or so in the heart of
Manhattan for ten dollars cash and a quarter interest in a
pedler's outfit. Has just about enough brain to make a jay-bird
fly crooked, and no more.
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