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Excerpt from The Road That Led Home: A Romance of Plow-Land Life's like one 0' these here whatsisnames - you know what I mean, School-teacher (if I had went in for school-teachin' instead 0' jarmin', I'd know too). The more you own, the more trouble you have keeping track of it. Get a good job, an' stay with it - an' don't let on you can milk. If you do, the people you're hired with will make you help milk the cows in the evening, after your day's work is supposed to be did. They're all alike; they'll all do it. This is a rough ol' world we're in, with a blamed aggravatin' outfit 0' people in it. If I'd 'a' killed all the skunks an' scamps I've felt like killin', I'd have a pile o' corpses arount me twenty foot, high by now. But I've held in an' took it easy; an' I'm healthy an' happy, with a fine ol' appetite an' no worries. If a man's got anything ag'in' me, I find out what it is. If he's a-scared 0' me, I shove my fist under his nose an' shut him up. If I'm a-scared o' him, I ast him to have a drink. I'm fifty-six years old, an' I was never late for dinner in my life. - meditations OF henry aurelius nicol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.