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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER VII
18/23

This curious chapter of the human mind really deserves a separate heading, and we introduce it to our readers as "THE LITERATURE OF OUTRAGE." "'First of all comes a letter to the master intimating that he is doing something objectionable to some one of the many Unions that go to make a single implement of hardware.

This letter has three features.

It is signed with a real name.

It is polite.

It is grammatical.
"'If disregarded, it is speedily followed by another.No.2 is grammatical, or thereabouts; but, under a feigned politeness, the insolence of a vulgar mind shows itself pretty plainly, and the master is reminded what he suffered on some former occasion when he rebelled against the trades.


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