. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ecog-nizing a Deserter After Thirty Years - Slaves of Fashion-Descriptionof the Suit I Wore at Twenty-One-The « Style Forty Attire-A Remarkable Inventory-Avarice- Only a LittleMore»-TheVice of Lying-The Habit of Swearing-1 he Boy WhoSwore by Old Dan Tucker-Im Sot, Yes, Im Sot-DamelWebsters Testimony-Two Words Spoken in Season-Ruin and Re-morse_«By and By —A Persistent Lover —A Narrow Escape- Come Down Wid Ye, Thady -The Warfare of Life. HE public do not expect fromme a literary entertainment,an intellectual feast, or
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ecog-nizing a Deserter After Thirty Years - Slaves of Fashion-Descriptionof the Suit I Wore at Twenty-One-The « Style Forty Attire-A Remarkable Inventory-Avarice- Only a LittleMore»-TheVice of Lying-The Habit of Swearing-1 he Boy WhoSwore by Old Dan Tucker-Im Sot, Yes, Im Sot-DamelWebsters Testimony-Two Words Spoken in Season-Ruin and Re-morse_«By and By —A Persistent Lover —A Narrow Escape- Come Down Wid Ye, Thady -The Warfare of Life. HE public do not expect fromme a literary entertainment,an intellectual feast, or alogical argument. I comebefore you, not to tell youwhat I have heard or read,but to tell that which Iknow, and to testify to that whichI have seen. I shall simply aimto give some of the results of myexperience and observation duringthe past forty-three years of mypublic life. The lessons I have learned are the bitter les-sons of experience, hard to learn and difficult to forget. Icare but little for the unity of what I shall say, and I would 71. 74 P vi ii:\< i and POLITENESS. Habit is second nature; we can almost make ourselveswhat we will; how many rude, surly, ungracious people wemeet who, for the lack of common politeness, which mightbe acquired, become morose and disagreeable. I know thaiit is more difficult for some to be polite than for others; tomany persons, true politeness, modest, unpretending, andgenerous, seems natural, while others must conquer the dis-position to be surly, before they can be civil. To be politeunder all circumstances requires patience and hear the remark that such a man — a conductor, for in-stance— is uncivil, when, if you could know all the pettyannoyances, the silly questions asked, vexatious by ignorant,foolish, and nervous passengers, combined with the care andresponsibility of an important train, the wonder perhapswould be that he is civil at all. Yet we do come in contactwith bears in manners, men from whom
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