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HENSON: You never had dreams of running away with the circus?

MANN: No, I never did.  Bill did, of course.

HENSON: I also wanted to ask you, did you ever run away?

MANN: No.

HENSON: You never ran away from home?

MANN: No, never wanted to.

HENSON: Right, I thought that would be interesting to ask.

MANN: But I liked to read adventure stories, and when I first met Bill Mann, and he would tell stories about the expeditions he'd been on--oh, I just thought it'd be so wonderful to be able to do that sort of thing. And, of course it was, as I found out.

HENSON: Yes, If you know what you're doing. What was it like at the Bureau of Entomology when you came there? Was it fairly large or closely knit?

MANN: No, it was a small building, not a big force. Dr.[Leland Ossian]] L. O. Howard was the chief, a very dear old man, and [Chester Lester] C. L. Marlatt. I don't know whether he was actually Howard's assistant; he was sort of second in command, and he specialized in the quarantine regulations. Bill was the tropical explorer. They would send him off to Mexico or Spain--he went to Spain a good deal--to