This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...gores their sides and their bellies, And leaves them to waste away and to rot on the rip-ples; In the end, he lands but the worthless carp and buffalo." While I cast for pickerel, I invite my Unspeakable Turk to talk: "What is your business?" "I am a member of the I. W. W.; I clean cesspools for a living; I defy law." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...gores their sides and their bellies, And leaves them to waste away and to rot on the rip-ples; In the end, he lands but the worthless carp and buffalo." While I cast for pickerel, I invite my Unspeakable Turk to talk: "What is your business?" "I am a member of the I. W. W.; I clean cesspools for a living; I defy law." "Disobey, you mean; You come as a thief in the night, and as a robber." "The laws are all wrong." "You mean you are all wrong: Within, you are a denied beast; Without, you are a law-breaker." "I know no law but the law of my own being." "You mean you are a savage: Civilization means restraint, restraint means law, Law means obedience both to the letter and to the spirit." I feel a heavy strike, but I miss my fish; 'I'll barb him in a minute, ' I say to myself. "You are a hundred years behind the times." "But you are a hundred centuries behind," I retort. With this I land him a fine pickerel for his dinner. "You need to understand That there is law for fishing and law for conduct; One needs must study to obey cheerfully. Your fisherman, who is ignorant of the ways of fishes, Snags because he cannot make an honest catch. Your good fisherman knows only the joy of right fish-ing; He revels for days over a good catch. It is so with the law: Your anarchist has never brought his soul Into obedience to his reason; The servant, he allows to run riot within the master's house." "Yes, but the world has not given me a square deal; I should receive ten dollars a day for my labor." "You mean, you have dealt unjustly with the world; The world must needs deal with your unjust man after his kind; It must take away his freedom; It must bring hi...
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