TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
aged to believe that they have learned their little lesson and are not so likely to make fools of themselves again. It's no more creditable or profitable for a man to overwork himself than to overwork his horse. Nothing except the safety of your soul is worth the price of your body. Moral number two: Don't overwork!—What's that? You think there's no danger in your case? Just you wait a couple of years or so until the day you come around and ask me to dine with you, saying that you have something important you want to talk over with me, and looking like a sick calf as you say it. Then, after you have confided to me her name and as much about it as I can stand, and have begun to tell me how many hours extra work a day you are doing—I'll go on with the moral.
It's about time I reached my "Finally, brother." Here it is. In whatever sort of work you happen to be, for Heaven's sake try to avoid the blind spot that every job is sure to generate—unless you take particular pains to avoid it by looking at other men and
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