. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. TroubleTalk (Second ':S<sr^ze^ I call it a swing talk, as it tells the difference between "running under" and "letting the old cat ; It seems only yesterday that you and I were kids and playing together with the old swing up in the orchard. Can't you think just how that crooked limb looked with the swing hanging from it? Sometimes I'd "run under" and give you good strong pushes, and then I'd sit on the grass and wait till the swing stopped of itself. Tou used to call it "l
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. TroubleTalk (Second ':S<sr^ze^ I call it a swing talk, as it tells the difference between "running under" and "letting the old cat ; It seems only yesterday that you and I were kids and playing together with the old swing up in the orchard. Can't you think just how that crooked limb looked with the swing hanging from it? Sometimes I'd "run under" and give you good strong pushes, and then I'd sit on the grass and wait till the swing stopped of itself. Tou used to call it "let- ting the old cat ; Then again both of us would stand up on the swing board and working back and forth get it goin^ till we could touch the branches—Bob Binker called it "; "Gee, but them was the happy days!" so says whenever I see him. Last night as I sat on the stoop, with my feet up on the railing, smoking and listening to the robins say "good night" to each other, I got to thinking how much doing business is like swinging. There are some concerns that always have some one "running under" and pushing things as hard as possible. There is "go" about such a firm, but it depends on the one man—the pusher, to keep things going. The fellow in the swing enjoys the profits—he doesn't work. But somehow I am a little scarey of such a firm, because if anything should happen to that one man, the pusher, or he should take it into his head to sit on the grass and "let the old cat die," then what happens to your half completed work? Will it be tied up till things are straightened out—or what? I tell you, I am a little bit slow about doing much business witli these small concerns. Then there are concerns that are just like "churning" : the whole force stands up in the swing together and churns. Everybody works—stock- holders and all are part of the live working organization. Everyone is
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