Oh, not one o' these BIG dreamers that put through the big deals! No, sir! You're the kind o' dreamer that just sets out on the back fence and thinks about how much trouble there must be in the world! That ain't the kind that builds the bridges, Bibbs; it's the kind that borrows fifteen cents from his wife's uncle's brother-in-law to get ten cent's worth o' plug tobacco and a nickel's worth o' quinine!" He put the finishing touch on this etching with a snort, and turned again to the window.
"Look out there!" he bade his son.

"Look out o' that window! Look at the life and energy down there! I should think ANY young man's blood would tingle to get into it and be part of it.

Look at the big things young men are doin' in this town!" He swung about, coming to the mahogany desk in the middle of the room.

"Look at what I was doin' at your age! Look at what your own brothers are doin'! Look at Roscoe! Yes, and look at Jim! I made Jim president o' the Sheridan Realty Company last New-Year's, with charge of every inch o' ground and every brick and every shingle and stick o' wood we own; and it's an example to any young man--or ole man, either--the way he took ahold of it.

Last July we found out we wanted two more big warehouses at the Pump Works--wanted 'em quick.