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Scan 34
The second violin, 1906
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.
1city newspaper you'd all smile approval, as at a thing suited to my genius. I'd have to live in town to do that, and what little I earned would go to fill my own hungry mouth. Now at the shops—you needn't look so top-lofty! Dozens of fellows who are taking engineering courses put on the overalls, shoulder a lunch-pail and go to work every morning during vacation at seven o'clock. They come grinning home at night, their faces black as tar, their spirits up in Q, jump into a bathtub, put on clean togs, and come down to dinner looking like gentlemen—but not gentlemen any more thoroughly than they have been all day."
3Jeff looked at his brother seriously. "Lanse," he said, "if you go into one of the locomotive shops won't you get a place for me?"
5But Celia interposed. "Whatever the rest of us do," she said, "Jeff and Just must keep on with school."
7Jeff rebelled with a grimace. "Not much!" he shouted. "I guess one six-footer is as good as another in a boiler-shop. You don't catch me swallowing algebra and German when I might be developing muscle. If Lanse puts on overalls I'm after him."
9Celia looked at her father. "What do you think of all this, sir?" she asked. "If I stay at home, dismiss Delia, and do the housework myself, and
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