This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...get published, of course. I like to look them over and get a notion what people are thinking of. Occasionally I take one and go out myself and get a story on it. I like to do that once in a while. I like to see how people treat me when they don't know I'm my grandfather's grandson. It keeps down my conceit. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...get published, of course. I like to look them over and get a notion what people are thinking of. Occasionally I take one and go out myself and get a story on it. I like to do that once in a while. I like to see how people treat me when they don't know I'm my grandfather's grandson. It keeps down my conceit. "It was this way I came across your letter about the chalk. Of course it came in long ago, but some way it got pigeon-holed with some other typewritten matter, and I ran onto it by accident. It looked to me as though there were a good newspaper story in it, and I took it to our city editor and put it up to him. I innocently supposed that my childish eye had detected a sensation which his eagle orb had missed. He smiled in a peculiar way, and referred me to the Old Man. Some way his smile irritated me, and so did the Old Man's, when I spoke to him about it." He ruminated. "The Old Man ran the paper in my grandfather's time," he confided, "and I can't get along without him, because he knows how to run the paper and I don't." "That must be the Marquis," said Billy. "What? Oh, well, that's a real ladylike name for him. I'll tell him that. Well, he invited me to sit down and we had a long confab, in the course of which he told me why the Forum couldn't print your little letter." He grinned cheerfully. "Did you know," said he, "that when this town was a little townlet, one square mile of land was set aside in trust for the school children of Bartown, the School Board to be the trustees? "The town was down beside the Bar then, the Bar that gave the name to the town; the sandbar that the first settlers used to ford the river on. But it grew this way, and with the passage of time...
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