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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."Lorimer, George Horace

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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

Name: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
Author: Lorimer, George Horace

Lorimer, George Horace

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Epistolary fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Social ethics -- Fiction

XV. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago,
 to his son, Pierrepont, at The Scrub Oaks, Spring Lake,
 Michigan.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted again, and the old
     man sends him a little advice with his appointment._      209

 XVI. From John Graham, at the Schweitzerkasenhof, Karlsbad,
 Austria, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards,
 Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack
     of society fever, and his father is administering some
     simple remedies._                                         223

 XVII. From John Graham, at the London House of Graham &
 Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is
     getting along famously in his new place._                 243

 XVIII. From John Graham, at the London House of Graham &
 Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old
     man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to
     make him climb a tree._                                   259

 XIX. From John Graham, at the New York house of Graham &
 Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago.
     _The old man, on the voyage home, has met a girl who
     interests him and who in turn seems to be interested
     in Mr. Pierrepont._                                       275

 XX. From John Graham, at the Boston House of Graham & Co.,
 to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has told the old man "what's what" and
     received a limited blessing._                             301


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ILLUSTRATIONS

_By_ F. R. GRUGER _and_ B. MARTIN JUSTICE


 1. "Young fellows come to me looking for jobs
       and telling me what a mean house they
       have been working for."                       _Frontispiece_

                                                       _Facing p._

 2. "Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday
       School if I didn't want to be saved."                     4

 3. "I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe
       who didn't bring back a great deal except
       a few trunks of badly fitting
       clothes."                                                20

 4. "I put Jim Durham on the road to introduce
       a new product."                                          38

 5. "Old Dick Stover was the worst hand at
       procrastinating that I ever saw."                        50

 6. "Charlie Chase told me he was President of
       the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting,
       and Immigration Company."                                62

 7. "Jim Donnelly, of the Donnelly Provision Company,
       came into my office with a fool grin
       on his fat face."                                        72

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

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