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EVEN SO! OR, AS YOU MAY SAY, A PREFACE 13

I THE FORGETFUL TAILOR 19

II TALK AT THE POST OFFICE 23

V THE CASE OF MR. WOOLEN 36

VI WHEN THE TRAIN COMES IN 41

X NO SNOB 53

XX IT STANDS TO REASON 94

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EVEN SO! OR, AS YOU MAY SAY, A PREFACE

I knew a man who used to do some writing, more or less of it--articles and essays and little sketches and things like that--and he went to another man who was a publisher. And he said that he would like to have published a book of some of his pieces. He hadn't done much, if any, writing for a number of years. Matters had been going rather bad with him, and he had lost more than a little of his buoyancy. The spark had waned; in fact, it was not there.

Anyhow, he did say that this collection of material had about it the rich glow of his prime, that it was living with the fullness of his life, that as a contributor to these papers and magazines he had a personal following decent enough in size, that the book, by all reasoning, ought to go far, and so on. The volume was published. It was called--no, I have forgotten what it was called. However, I heard that it got a very fair press, and sold somewhat.

Then, in about a year or so, round came the man again to the publisher with another batch of little papers. He had aged perceptively within this time, and matters had been going with him rather worse than before. No, he hadn't been able to write anything lately. But here he had a better book than before; it was a much better book than before, as it was an earlier one. These things breathed the gusto of his young manhood. They were perhaps a bit miscellaneous in character, he had got them out of the files of various journals, but they had a verve, a fire, a flare for life, which he couldn't better now. A great deal more he said to this effect.

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