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id: 21959
author: Lorimer, George Horace
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  [Illustration: "_Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling Education''s a good deal like eating--a fellow can''t always tell which Speaking of educated pigs, naturally calls to mind the case of old man one; but I don''t like to see you shy off every time the old man gets and Dexter and Jay-Eye-See. And that''s the way I want to see you swing by the old man at the end of A man''s got to keep company a long time, and come early and A good many young fellows come to me looking for jobs, and start in by Boys are a good deal like the pups that fellows sell on street job, except to blow the old man''s dollars, are a good deal like the Of course, you want to have your eyes open all the time for a good man, Of course, you''re going to meet fellows right along who pass as good men

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  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on ''Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."


id: 26695
title: Make or Break; or, The Rich Man''s Daughter
author: Optic, Oliver
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  "Of course not; André always gives a man an easy shave," replied Mr. Wittleworth. "Maggie says you want to see me," said Leo. The boy was dressed as neatly as the barber himself, but in other "But, father, I shall lose my medal if I leave school now," added Leo. "Do you know Mr. Checkynshaw?" asked the man of business. "Do you know Fitz Wittleworth?" demanded Mr. Checkynshaw, sharply. leave the house to show Mr. Checkynshaw where Mrs. Wittleworth lived. Fitz Wittleworth has only five dollars a week at Mr. Checkynshaw''s. We left Mr. Checkynshaw entering the house of Mrs. Wittleworth, in "What makes Fitz think that Marguerite is not living?" asked Mr. Checkynshaw, more mildly than he had yet spoken. "Don''t you want an establishment of this kind, Baxter?" asked Mr. Checkynshaw of a busy person who had worked his way through the crowd.


id: 1296
title: The Provost
author: Galt, John
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  having bent any single thing pertaining to the town and public, from the The same day that this news reached the town, I was standing at my shopdoor, between dinner and tea-time. "Mr M''Lucre," said I, and I took him cordially by the hand, "a thought had in hand; but, in the end, he said, that he thought what was proposed round me, said, "Bailie, surely it''s a great neglec of the magistrates The birth-day, in progress of time, came round, and the morning was time, he was taken into the council, and no man in the whole corporation said nothing; only I got the town-clerk''s young man, who acted as clerk I had done, by which the whole affair came to the public, and I got great thing sure, as soon as I went home I told it to Mrs Pawkie as a state


id: 12106
title: Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
author: Lorimer, George Horace
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  though I know a lot of people say I''m an old hog to keep right along When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to the business show a profit, and he''d be a mighty good man; but if you up the money saved on the profit side; and he''d be a mighty good man, Of course, the chances are that a man who hasn''t got a good start at that make good business, but a fellow''s got to add the fine curves to "Had a million dollars, and it was my good money," the old man moaned. A man is a good deal like a horse--he knows the touch of a master, and when you feel that you''ve got a good thing, you want to make sure that pretty good fellow, and I want to help you; after this I''m going to


id: 43701
title: Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
author: Forwood, William Bower, Sir
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  years a member of the Mersey Dock Board, and chairman of the Traffic half a mile nearer Liverpool there was a row of large houses, known as ships, large and small, working their way out to sea--a lovely sight. the old sailing ship days, when at the top of high water the outward Mr. John Bramley Moore''s great work on the Dock Board was completed A great change has taken place in the Liverpool Exchange. In the ''sixties, sailing-ships filled the Liverpool docks, and fully In the ''sixties Liverpool had two great trades. Eastern," for New York, the Liverpool dock walls being lined with people Member of Parliament, he did a great work for the city. blessings to the great community in the far-off city of Liverpool. Lord Leighton was a great friend to Liverpool, but we did not treat him Liverpool people so many great fortunes.


id: 42522
author: Lawrence, Amos
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  A valued friend writes, a few days after the death of Mrs. L.: letter to his friend, President Hopkins, of Williams College, he says: The year 1833 opened with bright and cheering prospects; for, with Mr. Lawrence''s increasing strength and improved health, there seemed a Mr. Lawrence always took great delight in sending to friends and On the anniversary of his commencing his business, Dec. 17, Mr. Lawrence, as usual, reviews his past life and mercies, and adds: The enlarged Christian spirit which formed so prominent a trait in Mr. Lawrence''s character, and which enabled him to appreciate goodness your time of life, habits are formed that grow with your years. A few days afterwards, Mr. Lawrence received a letter from the parties dear friend, I bid you God-speed in the good work; and, at last, About this time, Mr. Lawrence read a small work, entitled "Life in

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  Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life


id: 54815
title: Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama
author: Lewis, Henry Harrison
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  Nattie and Grant, seeing their new friend to the door. Grant and Nattie left ten minutes before the end for the purpose of Before either Grant or Mori could offer an objection, Nattie darted from to do, then he approached a clerk, and asked him to announce to Mr. Black that Grant Manning wished to see him on important business. When Nattie left his brother and Mori in the office of Black & Company, Before either Nattie or Mori could reply, the front door was thrown Both Nattie and Mori instinctively left the conversation to Grant. hour Nattie left a tea house on his way to the place of destination. Nattie Manning, and from the other--Ralph Black! "Mori, you are a friend indeed," said Nattie, when the young Japanese sea, Grant and Nattie and Mori finally scrambled to their feet and words that will put an end for all time to Grant and Nattie and Mori.


id: 53684
title: In the Desert of Waiting: The Legend of Camel-back Mountain
author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
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  On Shapur''s camel was a heavy load of salt. Leaving the camel browsing by the fountain he followed the bee. the City of thy Desire, as soon as thy camel is able to carry thee, Then Omar bade him lead his camel to the fountain, and leave him to So thou, too, shall fare forth some day to the City of thy "Wherever thou goest this sweetness will open for thee a way and win seest a heart bowed down in some Desert of Waiting, thou shalt whisper thy Garden of Omar, and even from the daily tasks which prick thee thy Garden of Omar, and even from the daily tasks which prick thee sorest distil some precious attar to bless thee and thy fellow man." precious attar in thy soul, that its sweetness shall win for thee a welcome wherever thou goest, and a royal entrance into the City of thy


