At last his patience was rewarded; but his feelings can be better imagined than described when he read these words:
“Was it hard to get off?”—Tid-Bits.
(2759)
We never can tell when rudeness and ill-manners may return upon our own heads:
George Ade, in the early days of his career, before his “Fables in Slang” had brought him fame, says the New York Tribune, called one morning in Chicago upon a Sunday editor, on a mission from a theatrical manager.
“I have brought you this manuscript,” he began, but the editor, looking up at the tall, timid youth, interrupted:
“Just throw the manuscript in the waste-basket, please,” he said. “I’m very busy just now, and haven’t time to do it myself.”
Mr. Ade obeyed calmly. He resumed:
“I have come from the —— Theater, and the manuscript I have just thrown in the waste-basket is your comic farce of ‘The Erring Son,’ which the manager asks me to return to you with thanks. He suggests that you sell it to an undertaker, to be read at funerals.”