Letters from a self-made merchant to his son : being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork-packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham", to his son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy".

  • Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Letters from a self-made merchant to his son : being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork-packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham", to his son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hooyer got a notion in his head that I ought to join the church, and he scared me out of it for five years by asking me right out loud in Sunday School if I didn’t want to be saved, and then laying for me after the service and praying with me. Of course I wanted to be saved, but I didn’t want to be saved quite so publicly. When a boy’s had a good mother he’s got a good conscience, and when he’s got a good conscience he don’t need to have right and wrong labeled for him. Now that your Ma’s left and the apron strings are cut, you’re naturally running up against a new sensa tion every minute, but if you’ll simply use a little conscience as a tryer, and probe into a thing which looks sweet and sound on the skin, to see if you can’t fetch up a sour smell from around the bone, you’ll be all right. I’m anxious that you should be a good scholar, but I’m more anxious that you should be a good clean man. And if you