Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

George Horace Lorimer

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Reference Series Books LLC Jul 2015, 2015

1153766299 / 9781153766296

Serie: Libro 3 di 3 - Letters To And From A Son

Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, GermaniaBuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K.

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Excerpt: . only pretends to be. You can cuss him out till you've nothing but holy thoughts left in you to draw on, and you can lay the rawhide on him till he's striped like a circus zebra, and if you're cautious Pg 158 and reserved in his company he will just look grieved and pained and resigned. But all the time that mule will be getting meaner and meaner inside, adding compound cussedness every thirty days, and practicing drop kicks in his stall after dark. Of course, nothing in this world is wholly bad, not even a mule, for he is half horse. But my observation has taught me that the horse half of him is the front half, and that the only really safe way to drive him is hind-side first. I suppose that you could train one to travel that way, but it really doesn't seem worth while when good roadsters are so cheap. That's the way I feel about these young fellows who lazy along trying to turn in at every gate where there seems to be a little shade, and sulking and balking whenever you say 'git-ap' to them. They are the men who are always howling that Bill Smith was promoted because he had a pull, and that they are being held down because Pg 159 the manager is jealous of them. I've seen a good many pulls in my time, but I never saw one strong enough to lift a man any higher than he could raise himself by his boot straps, or long enough to reach through the cashier's window for more money than its owner earned. When a fellow brags that he has a pull, he's a liar or his employer's a fool. And when a fellow whines that he's being held down, the truth is, as a general thing, that his boss can't hold him up. He just picks a nice, soft spot, stretches out flat on his back, and yells that some heartless brute has knocked him down and is sitting on his chest. A good man is as full of bounce as a cat with a small boy and a bull terrier after him. When he's thrown to the dog from the. 46 pp. Englisch.…

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Titolo
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Autore
George Horace Lorimer
Editore
Reference Series Books LLC Jul 2015
Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1153766299
ISBN 13
9781153766296
Peso dell'articolo
111 grammi
Dimensioni
246x189x4 mm
Serie
Libro 3 di 3: Letters To And From A Son

BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K.

Bergisch Gladbach, Germania

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