. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. ius of the Bazaar The backbitinghe couldnt do wasnt worth doing. In fact he hadquite a reputation in that direction. I suppose a flea,if it is particularly active, will get a reputation, and areputation must be upheld. I shall never say of thisperson that he did not uphold his reputation. It doesntmake much difference to the flea what sort of a dog hebites. Its just the same to him whether its a thor-ough I red or a cur. So it was with this person. Whetherit was the largest stockholder or the
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. ius of the Bazaar The backbitinghe couldnt do wasnt worth doing. In fact he hadquite a reputation in that direction. I suppose a flea,if it is particularly active, will get a reputation, and areputation must be upheld. I shall never say of thisperson that he did not uphold his reputation. It doesntmake much difference to the flea what sort of a dog hebites. Its just the same to him whether its a thor-ough I red or a cur. So it was with this person. Whetherit was the largest stockholder or the smallest stableboy, he always had time to bite him. Personally fleasare obnoxious to me. I dont like their company. Icant help hating fleas any more than fleas can help bit-ing. So I resigned. I was sorry to resign. But whenit comes to a question of resigning or of associatingwith fleas, Ill resign every time. OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 355 It is my opiDion that if ill luck follows a man in anyline of business or walk of life, he should change hisline of campaign entirely. And as I also believe that. GOING IN FOR SUCCESS. a man should practice what he preaches, that is what Ihave done. My last departure was to become a jour-nalist. I have become quite a success as a is said by my confreres that the scoops I cant makedont exist. I cant truthfully say that journalism is the 856 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY royal road to riches, but there is a cerraiD amount ofglory in it. And glory is the best salve I know of forthe absence of wealth. In fact there is a good deal ofpicturesque effect in the combination of glory and anempty pocket. But when I have finished getting glory I shall beginto get riches. I have schemed another scheme for thatpurpose. I have learned to combine the wisdom of theserpent with the harmlessness of thedove,and thereforeI shall nbt say what the scheme is. In carrying out myscheme, however, I shall specially avoid fools,fleas anddistinguished lawyers, and with
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