. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. CHAPTER II. A BOYS AMBITIONS. EN have different character-istic ways of acquiring wis-dom through Pay tons method hasbeen the lightning expresskind which bangs impetuouslyahead until it smashes into some-thing standing in the way to suc-cess. He pulls himself out of theruins, and, for a while, views thatsomething with a dazed quizzical does not nurse his bruises for long, how-ever. Soon he recovers his accustomed confi-dence and, climbing nimbly over the impediment,gets up steam again for another quick run.
. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. CHAPTER II. A BOYS AMBITIONS. EN have different character-istic ways of acquiring wis-dom through Pay tons method hasbeen the lightning expresskind which bangs impetuouslyahead until it smashes into some-thing standing in the way to suc-cess. He pulls himself out of theruins, and, for a while, views thatsomething with a dazed quizzical does not nurse his bruises for long, how-ever. Soon he recovers his accustomed confi-dence and, climbing nimbly over the impediment,gets up steam again for another quick run. Thenext time, though, that he makes that same runhe does not do any smashing. No, he puts on. 14 THE STORY OF CORSE PAYTON. the brakes and stops before getting hurt, for hehas learned the dangerous places along that line. Never was he known to ask advice. The peoplewho are always asking advice are not the oneswho do things. Such people spend their timefiguring how a thing ought to be done, and ifthey ever get around to do it some one is aheadof them and taking up all the road. Corse Pay-tons motto is get the road first. Not allowing himself, therefore, to be confusedwith conflicting advice, he has stamped all of hisenterprises with his own originality. Now,originality being the commodity the world mostwants, he has, of course, succeeded. Very early in life did this impetuous energy ofhis make itself felt. When only a wee chap at-tending the Centerville school, he was the recog-nized Boss of Boyville. He it was who originatedand carried out most of those reckless projects bywhich boys show their animal always had the biggest kite and the higheststilts. He could
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