if I sat on it long enough. I kept my eyes and ears open, sir, and I wasn’t too fond of my own back, and I made my master’s interest my own. Why, with only looking into what went on in the mill,, I found out how there was a waste of five Barcelona Pelipaita hundred a-year that might be hindered. Why, sir, I hadn’t more Xabi Alonso Jersey schooling to begin with than a charity boy; but I saw pretty soon that I couldn’t get Off-White čevlji on far enough without mastering accounts, and I learned ’em between working hours, after I’d been Santos Pelipaita unlading. Look here.” Mr. Deane opened a book and pointed to the page. “I write a good hand enough, and I’ll match anybody at all sorts of reckoning by the head; and I got it all by hard work, and paid for it out of my own earnings — often out of my own dinner and supper. And I looked into the nature of all the things we had to do in the business, and picked up knowledge as I went about my work, and turned it over in my head. Why, I’m no mechanic — I Deportivo La Coruna Fodboldtrøjer never pretended to be — but I’ve thought of a thing or two that the mechanics never thought of, and it’s made a fine difference in our returns. And there isn’t an article shipped or unshipped at our wharf but I know the quality of it. If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for ’em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that’s where it is.”
Mr. Deane tapped his box again. He had been led on by pure enthusiasm in his subject, and had really forgotten what bearing this retrospective survey had on his listener. He had found occasion for saying Nike Air Max 2019 Ženske the same thing more than once before, and was not distinctly aware that he had not his port-wine before him.
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