Dumbells of Business

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shabby, tired looking man with dripping nose, forehead, smoking cigar carrying umbrella and two bags wile dog in background looks on

Earning Bus Fare

DUMBELLS OF BUSINESS

by PROFF O.U. BOJACK (Bus.Doc.) AUTHOR OF “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN SALESMANSHIP,” “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN BUYING,” “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN LOVE & MARRIAGE,” ETC. Fighting Editor “BOJACK’S NOISY EXPORTER” Pruned of Profanity by Louis C. M. Reed

1922 THE STRATFORD CO., Publishers Boston, Massachusetts

THESE playful biffs on the beak of Business appeared originally in a little House Magazine called “Auto Suggestions.”

Many of them have been completely revised for the purpose of this volume, over the rasping nasal protest of Proff Bojack who believes in letting Well Enough alone until it crawls up and bites you in the leg, as mentioned somewhere in the text—then roll over on the other side.

The characters are drawn from the daily life of the average American business organization where men are somehow sweating through to Success against the cordovan inertia of the Dumbells of Business.

—THE PRUNER

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Proff O. U. Bojack (Bus. Doc.)

DEDICATED WITH A WARMTH OF FELLOW FEELING TO ALL BEDEVILED BRETHERN OF THE BUSINESS WORLD The Author