"
SECOND NAVVY--"Why? Yer don't need good eyesight for our job!"
FIRST NAVVY--"No, but 'e can't see when the foreman ain't lookin', so
he has to keep on workin' all the time."
A youth was being scored by his father for his flighty notions, his
habit of shirking and general unreliability. "Hard work never killed
anybody," the old man added.
"That's just the trouble, dad," returned the youngster. "I want to
engage in something that has a spice of danger in it."
"Why don't you get out and hustle? Hard work never killed anybody,"
remarked the philosophical gentleman to whom Rastus applied for a
little charity.
"You're mistaken dar, boss," replied Rastus; "I'se lost fouh wives dat
way."
For whether he's wielding a scepter or swab,
I have faith in the man who's in love with his job.
--_Shorey_.
WORRY
"Didn't you use to belong to a Don't Worry Club years ago?"
"Yes," replied the patient yet firm woman. "I had to resign. Nobody
worried about who was going to fix up the sandwiches and salad and
freeze the ice cream, but me. So I decided I was just a born worrier
and was out of my class."
YOUTH
Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale, said of youth at a tea in New
Haven:
"I find youth modest, almost over-modest.
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