The Crowd and the Work Entice the Lad
A terse reflective note cautions the youth about ambition and crowds. It contrasts the base crowd with the promise of ascent, suggesting there is always room at the top for those who do their work well.
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1878
Page
4
A terse reflective note cautions the youth about ambition and crowds. It contrasts the base crowd with the promise of ascent, suggesting there is always room at the top for those who do their work well.
A sparse, fragmented text fragment mentions kindness and contradiction with stray phrases like most a fact and fellow. It reads as a rough verse or marginal quotation with unclear provenance and few identifiable names or dates.
A collage of quirky vignettes and comic snippets from the Burlington Hawkeye includes pickup lines about gas light in New York and Brooklyn scandal, a preacher racing boys, a baker with yeast jokes, and a Hungarian farmer misreading beehives. It also recounts a Dutchman miscommunication about horses, a churchyard prank, and a slapstick tale of a clumsy man in a kitchen during house cleaning. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. for Bolly All Druggists.
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