This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...tranquilly. "And it won't succeed, because it will find too many men ready to fight for peace." "There are times when a man with any spirit in him must rebel. Let cows chew their cuds and be content." "Thank you, Peter, thank you kindly," Dietz said, with aggravating good-humor, "but let me tell you it isn't always the spirit in a man that makes him want to fight, instead of chewing his cud like an honest cow, --sometimes it's liver. When a man's liver's wrong, he always wants to meddle. Look at yourself, Peter. Look at your long, bilious, yellow, discontented nose; you'd better take care, or you'll follow it to a bad end. Sometimes I think if the Lord's made any mistake, it's in creating too much liver." "That's foolish talk," Peter replied, with a reluctant smile. "But there's something in it," Bernhard persisted. "Look at Russia. There's a deal of liver in Russia." "You needn't look so far," retorted the other dog gedly. "Look at home. Look everywhere. Look and listen. It's rising. It's coming. And then 'the brothers of the poor and the crushed will stand shoulder to shoulder." "Peter," Bernhard began gravely, "I believe you are better than your talk. You don't mean all that you say. I would do as much for a man in need as any of your 'brothers, ' and you know it. But I have no faith in your leagues and devil's ferrnenting-pots. And you 'brothers' don't hang together, either. When ohann had his fever, and couldn't pay his rent, or his life insurance, and there were the four...
