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Excerpt ...He never had been strong enough to stand off Ambition. So the next Day he took on Old Sure-Thing again and got it in the same Place. No wonder. The Octogenarian was of Scotch Descent. He was the Color of an Army Saddle. He never smiled except when the Kilties came on tour. His Nippie consisted of a tall Glass about half full and then a little Well Water. A plain American Business Man with a York State Ancestry had a fat Chance against this Caledonian frame-up. But that same persistent Ambition kept sending him back to the Ring to take another Trouncing. One day he failed to show up at the Club House. The Trained Nurse, who fanned him during the final Hours, never suspected. But the Caddy- Master knew that he had died of a Broken Heart. MORAL: Those who travel the hardest are not always the first to arrive.
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George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright... Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history: the first large wave of migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners and, indeed, a comedy of late 19th century American manners. Ade's fiction dealt consistently with the ""little man,"" the common, undistinguished, average American, usually a farmer or lower middle class citizen. (He sometimes skewered women, too, especially women with laughable social pretensions. (Wikipedia)
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1466326212
- ISBN 13 9781466326217
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
- IllustratorMcCutcheon John T.
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