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. 1916 Excerpt: ...and they thought it specially funny. Only one youth, an extra gym instructor who was trying to worm his way into an institution of higher culture--any institution of higher culture that would let him work as he studied--did sit down and talk. "At school?" he asked. "Not now. Vacation," said Stanislarni, calmly. "Oh--h! ...
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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. 1916 Excerpt: ...and they thought it specially funny. Only one youth, an extra gym instructor who was trying to worm his way into an institution of higher culture--any institution of higher culture that would let him work as he studied--did sit down and talk. "At school?" he asked. "Not now. Vacation," said Stanislarni, calmly. "Oh--h! Well, I suppose you know it's darn hard to pass the entrance exams." "I know it," said Stanislarni. "I buy books and pretty soon I know it all." "Gosh, 'tain't simple as that. If you weren't to a prep school you got to have tutors and all sorts of fancy training. Then there's the kale. That's what stumps me. I'm so long earning fifty dollars ahead that I spend a hundred while I'm at it." "Oh--money," said Stanislarni, with a sweep of the hand. "She don't hurt me none. How much it cost--this college?" "One can scrape through on five hundred a year. Less if he tends a furnace. But where's the five hundred?" "How much you take," asked Stanislarni, "to show me those books?" Cupidity gleamed in the poor rat's eye; he named a dollar an hour, expecting to be beaten down. "Come, begin," said Stanislarni, "I got no time for fooling." And tendered the dollar forthwith. The lad felt he was robbing the poor fathead, but because he saw a good supper in that dollar he accepted it. Mr. Steel grinned when he saw the two walking off, and made a crack anent the blind leading the blind. For three weeks the rat--his name was Ralph Browning--'phoned excuses and did not come to work. Then he sent word that he gave up the position, "having secured a steady one, more lucrative." He had indeed, its name being Stanislarni Natupski...
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