The Blue Calf And Other Tales Of Peter Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Blue Calf written by Leroy Fairman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Blue Calf: And Other Tales of Peter The man who is always trying to get the best of a bargain by underhanded means or to outwit somebody else is not honest. He wants to take advantage of other people's thoughts and toil; he wants things that do not belong to him things that he has not earned. Hewants to fool people and make himself out wiser and shrewder than they are. The man who thinks he is so cunning that nobody can get the best of him is a fool, and I sometimes think that being a fool is worse than being dishonest. He generally gets punished for his folly for the reason that every bunco steerer and gold-brick man who hears of him lies awake nights cooking up schemes to beat him. The slick grafter takes no professional pride in robbing a real easy mark, but he does feel justly proud when he gets under the skin of one of these smart individuals who think they are too cute to be taken in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.