Junior--a child who, as it would appearfrom the tale, had a habit of running things pretty much to his ownnotion. s an example of language with phonetic brevityexercising its supreme function, the direct conveyance of ideas. Yet he was always the first man to champion that race, and the moreunpromising the specimen the surer it was of his protection, and he neverinvited, never expected gratitude. In hisletters he had more than once boiled over touching these matters, and forNew-Year's Eve, 1900, had written:
His employer was a hard man, and on Saturday night when he paid him hedocked him fifteen minutes for the time he was up in the air--but nevermind, he had his reward. Yes, he said, those are the great evidences; no one who reasons can doubt them. I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote:I did fall and skin my shin at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, but howdi Certainly his home life was never happier.
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