144 THE FOGY DAYS AND NOW ; 



places joined and when I left that country, left hira there. 

 Some years after, I came down to Atlanta from Norcross an d 

 met my former neighbor on the street. He informed me that 

 he had just arrived in the city and had come here to practice 

 law. I was astonished and asked him what he knew about 

 law. He said he had busted farming and had taken to law ; 

 had been studying it for a few months, and asked my opinion 

 as to what I thought of his chances in Atlanta. I gave him 

 my opinion candidly and in a flat-footed manner. I told him 

 these Atlanta lawyers were a sharp set, and the chances for a 

 country fellow who had come to a great city with a smatter- 

 ing of law was about as slim as anything I had ever seen. H!s 

 face lengthened out as I talked to him, and finally he 

 exclaimed: "I am obliged to succeed; I've got nothing 

 but a family, and it's a "ground hog case." and stamping his 

 foot in a resolute manner, said : "I am obliged to succeed." 

 Then I said. Bob, if it has come to that, go ahead and maybe 

 you will; "where there's a will there's a way ;" and if you 

 are obliged to do it, you will. That same fellow is familliarly 

 known to almost everyone in the city to-day as Bob Jourdan, 

 and one of its most popular lawyers. 



