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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW Originally published in Munsey't Magazine, December, 1908.] But can thim that helps others help thimselves 1 ? Mulvaney. 1HIS is the story that William Trotter told me on the beach at Aguas Frescas while I waited for the gig of the captain of the fruit steamer Andador which was to take me abroad. Reluctantly I was leaving the Land of Always Afternoon. William was remaining, and he favored me with a condensed oral autobiography as we sat on the sands in the shade cast by the Bodega Nacional. As usual, I became aware that the Man from Bombay had already written the story; but as he had compressed it to an eight-word sentence, I have become an expansionist, and have quoted his phrase above, with apologies to him and best regards to Terence. Don't you ever have a desire to go back to the land of derby hats and starched collars ? I asked him. You seem to be a handy man and a man of action, I continued, and I am sure I could find you a comfortable job somewhere in the States. Ragged, shiftless, barefooted, a confirmed eater of thelotos, William Trotter had pleased me much, and I hated to see him gobbled up by the tropics. I've no doubt you could, he said, idly splitting the bark from a section of sugar-cane. I've no doubt you could do much for me. If every man could do as much for himself as he can for others, every country in the world would be holding millenniums instead of centennials. There seemed to be pabulum in W. T.'s words. And then another idea came to me. I had a brother in Chicopee Falls who owned manufactories ? cotton, or sugar, or A. A. sheetings, or something in the commercial line. He was vulgarly rich, and therefore reverenced art. The artistic temperament of the family was monopolized at my birth....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217279406 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217279406 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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