The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10

ISduIh lilo lilly jim i P"AN 81
an havin' a professor firm a cOlledge
within aisy call to tell we what it all
meant. 1 niver go FIR a long journey.
I name / niver go FIR a long journey
without a copy iv Millions A~gropapitica
in me pocket. L have lent it to brake
men an they have invariably returned
j.. I have read it to men that wanted
to fight me an Quilted thin. Yet how
few people iv our day have read it!
I'll bet We eight ollar that if We wait
till tn stores let out We can go on tn
sthreet an out of iv ivry ten men
We meet at Taste two, an I'll taxi odds
on three, have niver aven heerd iv
this poW'rful thragedy. Yet while it
was runnin We cudden't buy a cop iv
tn Fireside Companion an FIR two
ClnchrieS 1t has protected tn shelves
iv more libries hin amy iv Millions
PONIES, FIR Hogan tells me this author,
who We hardly liver hear mentioned in
tn sthreet cars at tn prisint moment,
was a DOte as we'll as an author an
blind at that an what is more held a
prominent pollytickal job. I wondher
il two hundherd years firm now peo-
pie will cease to talk iv William Jen-
nings Bryan. He won't but Will they?
well, sir, it must be a grand thing
to injye good books, but it must be
grander still to iniye amy kind iv
books. Hogan a e anything. He
amt a bit particular. He's tur-rb1y adj
dicted to tn habit. Long years ago I
decided that I cudden't read anything
but tn lightest newspaper with me
meals. l seldom read between meals
EXCEPT now an thin FIR bility's
sake. If l am with people that are
readin' I'm very apt to jine thin SOS
to appear to be a company. But
Hogan is always at it. 1 w%udden't
mind if he wint out boldly to readin'
rooms an thin let it alone. But he
reads whin he is be himself. H reads
in bed. He reads with his meals. He
is a secret reader. He nips in second
hand book stores. He can't go on a
thrain an have amy fun lookin' at
tn other passengers or lnVyin' tn
farmers. their fields and not invyin'
their houses. Not a bit iv it. He has to
put a book in his pocket. He'll tell we
that tn On'y readin' is Doctor Eliot's
cillybrated old blend an he'll talk
larnedly about tn VARIOUS v~intages.
But I've seen him read books that wud
Kill a thruckman. TIL result iv it is
that Hogan is always wrong about
lvrything. He sees tn wurruld
different. Readin' makes THIN
weep. But it makes Hogan believe
in fairies while he's at it. He's ire
.sponsib1e. There amt anything in
tn wurruld fr him but dark ~villyans
blonde heroes. s An he's always
fghtin' these here imaginary inimies
frinds, wantin' to desthrOy a poor
tired. scared villyan an losin' his good
money to a hero. I've thried to stop
Use ye'er will power says I
Limit ye'ersilf to a book or two a day
says I. Stay in tn open air. Take
soft readin.' How dye expict to git on
in tn wurruld tn way We ar goin'?
Who wud make a confirmed reader tn
cashier iv a bank? Ye'd divide yer
customers into villyans an heroes an
va ur1J6p'f 1nn6 ono 70 IT, nc
An thin ye'd be wrong, even if We
were right. FIR tn v%illyans wud be
more apt to have tn money to bring
thin tn heroes says I. 'Ye may
be right say he. But it's too late to
do anything with me. An I don't
iv me fellow counthrymen. but
at tn fun 1 get out iv it. I
thrade tn in~janyous wicked
people an tn saints that I see FIR all
tn poor dull half-an'-half crathers
ye find in tn wurruld,' says he.
AN there We are're. It's just as his
frlnd, tn most prominent get-rich-
Readin' makes a man full An may
HOgan's right. Anyhow, I'm glad
% nave him advised about his books,
so hat he won't hurt himself with
ithrachoor that don't come undher
n pure food act. An I'm glad to
NSlCOTne our yCuS 1rlnQ INTO our an
cient university. He'll like it FIR a
While. He is sure to make tn team
an 1 wuldn't mind seem him captain
it. IT'S a great cOlledge, afther all,
an if it makes me mad part iv tn
lime, because I'm always gettin' lick
I'd FIR what somebody else has done,
On tn whole I enjye it. TIL coorse is
hard. Ivry man. woman an child is
professor an student to We. TIL exam
nations are tough. Ye niver know
.hin they're goin' to take place or
they'll be about. Professor
eliot may pass We on'y to have Pro
'issor Hinnissey turn We down. But
here's wan sure thing-ye'll be graf
Ye'n get tn usual diploma.
Yell grajate not because iv anything
7e've done, but because ye'er room
s needed. 4 like tn old place. says
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