Alex the Great

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Witwer Harry Charles. Alex the Great

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING ALEX THE GREAT

CHAPTER II. THE SELF-COMMENCER

CHAPTER III. PLAY YOUR ACE!

CHAPTER IV. DON'T GIVE UP THE TIP!

CHAPTER V. YOU CAN DO IT!

CHAPTER VI. THE LITTLE THINGS DON'T COUNT

CHAPTER VII. ART IS WRONG

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There's nothin' the world loves so much as a good tryer. I don't mean the birds that havin' everything in their favor, includin' a ten-mile start, finishes first in the Big Race – I'm talkin' about the guys that never get better than second or third, but generally land in the money. The old Consistent Charlies that, no matter how many times they're beaten, figures the time to quit is when you're dead and buried!

Did you ever stop to think that the tryers which never get nowhere is responsible for the other guys' success? They're the babies that make a race or a fight out of it, and if it wasn't for them dubs there'd be no successes at all. In order to have winners, we got to have losers, don't we? And don't forget that yesterday's losers are to-morrow's winners and vice-president or vice versa, whatever it is.

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"I'll bet you could make Rockefeller think they wasn't a nickel in oil!" says the wife admirin'ly.

Alex gets up and reaches for his hat.

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