Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Credit of the Old Man who had given him the Yard to Boss. But the Good Young Man couldn't stand the Pressure, and the old man has never cashed in his Credit for $5,247.63. He has blown in pretty near that much for Ads in the Personal Columns stating that if Reginald will return all will be forgiven. Moral—He is unlucky whose First Temptation is a Big One. Of Socrates and the Man from Wisconsin This Fable is for the uplift of the Human Tank who is inclined to cast his lamps on the Wine when it is Red. This man—an Exception—was a Hemlock Manufacturer at Somewhere, Wis. He had been reading the Sad Fate of one Socrates, who Flourished between 469 and 399 B. C. It bothered him Some to see how a Man could be born in 469 and Die in 399. According to that he had Died Seventy years before he was Born— a Very sad thing to Happen to Any man. However, it is that Way in the books and it might Easily have happened in Some Towns. Socrates was a Philosopher, like B. A. Johnson and Frank McMillan. He was the Son of Sopronicus, and a pupil of Sumothercus, who taught him to be a Sculptor. Soc thought that rather than be a Sculptor he would be a Philosopher. Sculpting too closely resembled Work, while it was a Snap to philos. History records that Socrates had a Shrewish Wife, but that he also had a Robust Constitution—which was Well. It is recorded that Socrates once Stood still for twenty-four Hours Entranced in Thought. He was Probably trying to Remember what his Wife Tied the White String on his Finger for. In 399 Socrates was Charged with Neglecting the Gods of the State and Introducing new Divinities and with Corrupting the Morals of the Young. It is Supposed that this was the Result of his Attempt to Hold a Concatenation. Similar Charges had been Made twenty-four Yea...