| Show DON'T BE A Hide your little hammer and try to speak well of no mat-tre how small you may really know yourself to a stranger drops jolly Tell him this is the greatest town on earth and Don't discourage him by speaking ill of your There's no end of fun minding your own It makes other people like Nobody gets stuck on a The knocker is as old as the human The devil was the first and is the greatest The knocker is the creature of a mor- bid temperament who looks down and not talks down and sits He is the fellow for whom there is no rainbow or hope nor He sees failures written on every He does not come up to the full measure of his opportunity and he hates the fellow who He will not but sits on the bottom round of the ladder and snarls and snaps at everyone who would undertake to pass he is a knocker by nature or habit we do not but he is nevertheless a definite entity in every town and He is to progress what the electrician calls a retardation to the He is not an obstacle-has not character If he were an obstacle one could go around or over him or tunnel through But he is too too too insubstantial and indefinite to permit of going over or He is more like a a housefly or a mosquito a first-class nuisance and annoyance to men of courage and If you start to i streets he if a n 18 e bu if a town hall or cj house is to be built he raise money for any kind of en he balks and tries to iD duce every other one to do yet he really wish to succeed in keeping others from contributing their his mi object is to convince others he is sincere in his position of doin Box Elder A boy who had been watching through the keyhole the antics of a couple of ran down into the kitchen to announce his discovery his it's such he such gravely asked the old Why to see Fipps and sister play lunatic A young looking at the Ere I But how did they be come so intricately entangled in the |
