I never said that at all.

I was a journalist.
"Well, dad got me a place on a paper in New York, and I worked on the dog-fight department for a time, it havin' been discovered that I was noted along certain lines of research in Princeton.

I knew the pedigree and fightin' weight of every white, black, or brindle pup in four States.

Now, a whole lot of fellows come out of college who don't know that much; or if they do, they don't know how to apply their knowledge.

Now dogs, that's plumb useful.
"I was still doin' dogs when the presidential campaign came along, or rather, that feature of our national customs which precedes the selection of the People's Choice.