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I'd quit and free-lance if I could break in with fiction, but a rotten bunch of log-rollers have got the inside track with all the magazines and book-publishers." "Ever try to write any fiction?" Una once heard S. Herbert retort. "No, but Lord! any fool could write better stuff than they publish. It's all a freeze-out game; editors just accept stuff by their friends."
Even here she trenches too closely upon the truth to escape the calumnious supposition that she is writing of herself. She is too popular to need reviews. She is at war with the critics, and she has induced a very large portion of the public to believe that 'a number of the critics the "log-rollers" especially are mad against her for her success.
The log-rollers don't like books being dedicated to them; it draws the attention of the public and exposes the game. Ah, well, not many members of the public will see that dedication!" A great change, however, was now imminent. Saying as little as possible indeed, making all kinds of evasions and excuses, so as not to alarm the women-folk old Dr.
All the same, I hinted I didn't want his help." Kemp laughed. "You surprise me every time! I'm all for a square deal and down with scheming grafters and log-rollers, but I allow I hate them worst when they give another fellow the post I want." "The thing's not fixed yet. The company's engineers are going to judge and our record's pretty good. They may engage us. We'll know to-morrow."
"Look here, Maurice," said he, "that book can't be as bad as you tried to make out." "It is the most insensate trash that was ever put between boards," was the prompt reply. "But how can that be? Look at what the papers say!" "The papers what papers? That isn't what the papers say that is what the small band of log-rollers say, calling industriously to one another, like frogs in a pond.
The teamsters having quickly scattered to their respective teams and brought them with a lively step on to the ground, and having there each received their allotted quota of log-rollers, to pile up the logs as fast as drawn, at once penetrated at different points into the thickest parts of the blackened masses of timber before them, awaiting their sturdy labors.
"That may be; but she is not the first clever woman who has made the mistake of imagining that because she is socially popular she must therefore be able to write a book." "And what am I to say to Octavius Quirk?" "What are you to say to the log-rollers? Don't say anything. Get Lady Adela to ask one or two of them to dinner.
Advocates, special pleaders, log-rollers, and codes that are recodified every twelvemonth are poor substitutes for a few men capable of perceiving the principles of equity, systematizing their expression and making them simple, uniform and absolute in practice.
They say we are venial, that we are log-rollers, that we have no convictions, that we don't know what we are talking about, that we are the failures in art, all that kind of thing. We have plenty of faults, no doubt. But there are some of us who try to be honest. I try to be honest. I am going to try to be honest about your work to-night. That is why I am sending you this.
"Bring on your bulldogs, your hired men and your log-rollers." He turned handsprings on the grass that prodded Tom to envious sarcasm. And then, with a whoop, he clattered to the rear and brought back Uncle Ike, a battered colored retainer of the family, with his banjo, and strewed sand on the porch and danced "Chicken in the Bread Tray" and did buck-and-wing wonders for half an hour longer.
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