The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories
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The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories
Chapter 1
THE JIMMYJOHN BOSS AND OTHER STORIES By Owen Wister To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record Owen Wister Preface It's very plain that if a thing's the fashion-- Too much the fashion--if the people leap To do it, or to be it, in a passion Of haste and crowding, like a herd of sheep, Why then that thing becomes through imitation Vulgar, excessive, obvious, and cheap. No gentleman desires to be pursuing What every Tom and Dick and Harry's doing. Stranger, do you write books? I ask the question, Because I'm told that everybody writes That what with scribbling, eating, and digestion, And proper slumber, all our days and nights Are wholly filled. It seems an odd suggestion-- But if you do write, stop it, leave the masses, Read me, and join the small selected classes. The Jimmyjohn Boss
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