From twenty to twenty-five I was entry clerk in a hardware store; then book-keeper; then cashier in a wagon factory; then clerk in a village bank--then book-keeper again in my present bank, and there I have been ever since.

My only advantages were a good constitution and the fact that I came of gentle people.

Here we are both alike--you at twenty--how old ?--twenty two ?...

Well, make it twenty-two....

You at twenty-two and I at twenty-two seem to have started out in life with the same natural advantages, so far as years and money go, but with this difference--Shall I tell you what it is ?" "Yes." "That I worked and loved it, and love it still, and that you are lazy and love your ease.