Tales of the RoadThompson & Thomas, 1905 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 216 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Pàgina 343 - By'n by hard times comes a-knockin' at the door, Then my old Kentucky home, good-night! Weep no more, my lady! Oh weep no more today. We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home, For my old Kentucky home, far away.
Pàgina 93 - I had been made the victim of a swindle in the way of a string of plausibly worded sentences that didn't mean anything under the sun. Artemus Ward was one of the best fellows in the world, and one of the most companionable. It has been said that he was not fluent in conversation, but, with the above experience in my mind, I differ.
Pàgina 50 - ... should die to-night And you should come to my cold corpse and say, Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay — If I should die to-night, And you should come in deepest grief and woe — And say : " Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?
Pàgina 351 - O. He sang to himself: Dear old girl, the robin sings above you! Dear old girl, it speaks of how I love you, Dear old girl, it speaks of how I love you . , . He couldn't remember the rest of the song, but it was a fine song. It described his Mary to a T. His . . . Dear Old Girl. And the old gang. They were scattered now, to the very ends of the earth. Many of them were dead, like poor Paddy McCoy...
Pàgina 15 - THE SQUARE DEAL WINS. ALESMANSHIP is the business of the world; it is about all there is to the world of business. Enter the door of a successful wholesale or manufacturing house and you stand upon the threshold of an establishment represented by first-class salesmen. They are the steam — and a big part of the engine, too — that makes business move. I saw in print, the other day, the statement that salesmanship is the "fourth profession." It is not; it is the first. The salesman, when he starts...
Pàgina 115 - YOU OUGHT TO HAVE SEEN HIS PLACE." he hasn't any. And besides, the little man may be just in the notion of spreading himself. "A young man was counting eggs back near the coal oil can. He was the only one around who seemed to have anything to do with the store. I walked up to him and told him who I was. He said, 'Yes, we are glad to see you. I'm just out of school and father wants to put me in business here. He is going to put in all his time in the bank. He wants me to take charge of the store....
Pàgina 118 - I SAT with a group of friends around a table one evening not long ago, in one of the dining rooms of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. The dining room was done in dark stained oak, the waiters whispered to each other in foreign tongues, French and German; on the walls of the room were pictures of foreign scenes painted by foreign hands; but, aside from this, everything about us was strictly American.
Pàgina 96 - ... know the people in the town did help that girl along. When the women heard what a traveling man was willing to do, they no longer barred her out because, for bread, she played a violin in a beer garden, but they opened their doors to her and helped her along. The girl got a music 95 class and with some assistance went to a conservatory of music in Boston where she is studying today.
Pàgina 209 - The letter which Johnson wrote in reply to the card of my packer went something like this : " 'My dear sir: In regard to your favor of the 23d inst., I beg to say that...