ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article Directory"You asked me the other day what my job is. It is Supervisor of this district. They have appointed me in your place." "Oh, they have," said California John. He sat for some time, his eyes narrowing, looking straight ahead of him. "I’d like to know why!" he burst out at last. A dull red […]
"That’s it. And everybody in the country thought I was a damn fool. Only damn fools and lazy men took rangers’ jobs those days. But I hung on because I believed in it. And now I got the best job in the bunch. In place of being looked down on as that old fool John, […]
"We’re savin’ the People’s property, and keepin’ it in good shape," he argued to himself, "and that’s sure the main point. If we take care of things, we’ve done the main job. Let the other fellows do the heavy figgerin’. The city’s full of cheap bookkeepers who can’t do nothing else." Part 3 Chapter 25 […]
This studied respect for his superior officer on the Supervisor’s part encouraged Brent to deliver from time to time rather priggish little homilies on the way to run a Forest. California John listened, but with a sardonic smile concealed beneath his sun-bleached moustache. After a little, however, Brent became more inclined to bring home the […]
But when evening came, and the end of the month, Supervisor Davidson always found himself in trouble. Then he sat down before his typewriter, on which he pecked methodically with the rigid forefinger of his right hand. Naturally slow of thought when confronted by blank paper, the mechanical limitations put him far behind in his […]
