_By_ F. R. GRUGER _and_ B. MARTIN JUSTICE
1. "Young fellows come to me looking for jobs
and telling me what a mean house they
have been working for." _Frontispiece_
_Facing p._
2. "Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday
School if I didn't want to be saved." 4
3. "I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe
who didn't bring back a great deal except
a few trunks of badly fitting
clothes." 20
4. "I put Jim Durham on the road to introduce
a new product." 38
5. "Old Dick Stover was the worst hand at
procrastinating that I ever saw." 50
6. "Charlie Chase told me he was President of
the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting,
and Immigration Company." 62
7. "Jim Donnelly, of the Donnelly Provision Company,
came into my office with a fool grin
on his fat face." 72
8. "Bill Budlong was always the last man to
come up to the mourners' bench." 84
9. "Clarence looked to me like another of his
father's bad breaks." 98
10. "You looked so blamed important and chesty
when you started off." 128
11. "Josh Jenkinson would eat a little food now
and then just to be sociable, but what he
really lived on was tobacco." 146
12. "Herr Doctor Paracelsus Von Munsterberg
was a pretty high-toned article." 166
13. "When John L. Sullivan went through the
stock yards it just simply shut down the
plant." 184
14. "I started in to curl up that young fellow
to a crisp." 200
15. "A good many salesmen have an idea that buyers
are only interested in funny stories." 216
16. "Jim Hicks dared Fatty Wilkins to eat a
piece of dirt." 248
17. "Elder Hoover was accounted a powerful exhorter
in our parts." 268
18. "Miss Curzon, with one of his roses in her
hair, watching him from a corner." 294
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| From John Graham, at |
| the Union Stock Yards |
| in Chicago, to his son, |
| Pierrepont, at Harvard |
| University, Cambridge, |
| Mass. Mr. Pierrepont has |
| just been settled by his |
| mother as a member, in |
| good and regular standing, |
| of the Freshman class. |
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