Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
For instance, one of them who is a good judge sees a horse at some
interior town that he knows is worth three times as much in Milwaukee or
Chicago as the owner asks for it. He would be a fool if he did not buy
it. We have known a conductor to make more money on two horse trades
than his salary would amount to for three months. Would you object to
his doing it? He did not neglect the business the company paid him to
perform.
Sometimes a conductor feels in his inmost heart that the indications are
that wheat is going up. Is it any worse for him to take a deal in
wheat than it is for the deacon in his church? If he makes five hundred
dollars on the deal, and puts an addition on his house, is it the square
thing for you to say he stole it out of the company? Their knowledge
of railroads and business frequently gives them an idea that stocks are
liable to go up or down, and often they invest with good results.
We will take the chances with conductors, as square men, by the side
of any business men, and it makes us as mad as a wet hen to hear people
talk about their stealing. As well say that because one bank cashier
steals that they are all robbing the banks. Quit this, now.
A HOT BOX AT A PICNIC.
An Oshkosh young man started for a picnic in a buggy with two girls,
and when they got half way they got a hot box to the hind wheel of the
buggy, and they remained there all the afternoon pouring water on the
wheel, missing the picnic. There is nothing that will cause a hot box in
a buggy so quick as going to a picnic with girls. Particularly is this
the case when one has two girls. No young man should ever take two girls
to a picnic. He may think one cannot have too much of a good thing,
and that he holds over the most of the boys who have only one girl, but
before the picnic is over he will note the look of satisfaction on the
faces of the other boys as they stray off in the vernal shade, and he
will look around at his two girls as though his stomach was overloaded.
We don't care how attractive the girls are, or how enterprising a boy he
is, or how expansive or far-reaching a mind he has, he cannot do justice
to the subject if he has two girls. There will be a certain clashing of
interests that no young boy in his goslinghood, as most boys are when
they take two girls to a picnic, has the diplomacy to prevent. Now, this
may seem a trifling thing to write about and for a great pious paper
to publish, but there is more at the bottom of it than is generally
believed. If we start the youth of the land out right in the first place
they will be all right, but if they start out by taking two girls to a
picnic their whole lives are liable to become acidulated, and they will
grow up hating themselves. If a young man is good-natured and tries
to do the fair thing, and a picnic is got up, the rest of the boys are
liable to play it on him. There is always some old back number of a girl
who has no fellow, who wants to go, and the boys, after they all get
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