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"We'll see about that," responded her brother, darkly. "That dog has the stick-to-it-iveness of fish-glue. Wait and see." Meanwhile Arthur Hobbs drew in the canoe Purt was clinging to, and soon helped the gasping dude into the large boat. "Oh! oh!" cried Purt. "I might have known that horrid dog was bad luck."
This rude, simple, primitive power which we call "stick-to-it-iveness" is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour. People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things. They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
Again, in a conversation many years ago at the laboratory between Edison, Batchelor, and E. H. Johnson, the latter made allusion to Edison's genius as evidenced by some of his achievements, when Edison replied: "Stuff! I tell you genius is hard work, stick-to-it-iveness, and common sense." "Yes," said Johnson, "I admit there is all that to it, but there's still more.
Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up. "God bless my soul! God bless my soul!" he said, at last, and shivered. Then he turned to Steering: "My boy, you know how to hold on. I believe you've got as much stick-to-it-iveness as I have."
Why, any cub reporter, if he were to put into some other profession the same amount of nerve, and tact, and ingenuity and finesse, and stick-to-it-iveness that he expends in prying a single story out of some unwilling victim, could retire with a fortune in no time." Blackie blew down the stem of his pipe, preparatory to re-filling the bowl. There was a quizzical light in his black eyes.
But all these things aside, no one sitting at these tables has higher admiration for the Pilgrim Fathers than I have the men who believed in two great doctrines, which are the foundation of every religion that is worth anything: namely, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of Man these men of backbone and endowed with that great and magnificent attribute of stick-to-it-iveness.
"All of you fellows must admit that he has sand." "Oh, a kind of bulldog stick-to-it-iveness," murmured Stover. "I'll tell you one thing," said Bandy Robinson; "now that Diamond has not blowed, he's going to be backed by some of the leading sophs." "Eh? What makes you think so?" "Oh, I've got it straight. Browning has been to see him." "No! Why, Browning is king of the sophs!"
Of course, to begin with, he had natural ability, but that was not the only thing that won success for him. He had courage, push, determination, stick-to-it-iveness. When he started to do a thing he kept at it till he did it. Frank united observation and study.
The light prairie soil, when thoroughly saturated, is capable of very great volatility and yet of stick-to-it-iveness. While the team and wagon, buried deeply in the mud, found the soil as yielding as quicksand, the passengers, on alighting, were no more fortunate. To make the chair and wade ashore with its precious burden, at such a time, involved a very nice adjustment of balances.
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