In Winter Quarters 



It was born to fly, and is self-starting. 

 But along this great crowded highway 

 of the average, you will find it very 

 necessary to hoe; to hoe early and to 

 hoe late; to hoe persistently, and to 

 hoe not just on the surface, but deep. 

 There is too much competition except 

 in the Napoleon-Shakespeare class 

 to admit of any other course if you 

 expect to keep above the line even a 

 few degrees. Loaf too much and you 

 are left. Hang up your hoe too fre- 

 quently, and you will go without 

 potatoes. 



The great thing is to do whatever is 

 given you to do in the very best manner 

 possible. I don't care if it is blacking 

 some other fellow's shoes. If you make 

 so good a job of it that it compels the 

 attention of the owner, you can rest 

 assured that he will recognize the fact, 

 and argue from it that since you have 

 done even so small a thing as that so 

 well you are more than likely to do 

 something more important better than 

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