The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
by Owen Wister
To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and
fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record
Owen Wister
Preface
It's very plain that if a thing's the fashion-- Too much the fashion--if the people leap To do it, or to be it, in a passion Of haste and crowding, like a herd of sheep,
Why then that thing becomes through imitation Vulgar, excessive, obvious, and cheap.
No gentlem ...