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Updated: June 6, 2025
They are in all kinds of business; and from the way they branch out, and put up new stores, and multiply their signboards on the outside and inside of doors, I conclude that the largest business firm on earth to-day is Push & Pull. When these gentlemen join the church, they make things go along vigorously.
Theoretic kidnappers and slave-drivers, they esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being; and by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character. The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness.
The Rue de Valois, to which a tradesman, who was peering cautiously out of his shop, directed me, proved to be one of the main streets of the city, narrow and dirty, and darkened by overhanging eaves and signboards, but full of noise and bustle. One end of it opened on the PARVIS of the Cathedral; the other and quieter end appeared to abut on the west gate of the town.
The boy who can read and understand nature's signboards, who knows the names of the various trees and can tell which are best adapted to certain purposes, what berries and roots are edible, the habits of game and the best way to trap or capture them, in short the boy that knows how to get along without the conveniences of civilization and is self-reliant and manly, is a student of woodcraft.
We stepped out upon the great square which faced the building. How completely it was changed from the Berlin that I had known! My attention was at once arrested by the new and glaring signboards at the shops and hotels, and the streamers with mottos suspended across the streets. I realised as I read them the marvellous adaptability of the German people and their magnanimity towards their enemies.
Signboards, shaken past endurance in their creaking frames, fell crashing on the pavement; old tottering chimneys reeled and staggered in the blast; and many a steeple rocked again that night, as though the earth were troubled. It was not a time for those who could by any means get light and warmth, to brave the fury of the weather.
"Ham and his crowd were too lazy to cut firewood, so they used the board. If that isn't the height of laziness and meanness!" "It's against the law to destroy signboards," said Whopper. "That crowd ought to be brought to book for this." "If you said anything they'd say we did it," responded Snap. "Ham would do anything to keep out of trouble and get us into a muss."
And, by the way, what right had you to tear down one of the signboards and use it for firewood?" "Who said we did that?" demanded Ham. "We saw the half-burned board at your camp fire." "You can't blame that on us!" cried Carl. "We can, and do," responded Snap. "You ought to be locked up for it." "Oh, give us a rest!" growled Ham. "What brought you here?" demanded Snap sharply.
Private facetiousness had labelled most of them with signboards. These were rough pictures of disaster painted from the marking pot, and various screeds "Head of Navigation," "No Bottom," "Horse and Dray Lost Here," "Take Soundings," "Storage, Inquire Below," "Good Fishing for Teal," and the like.
And now the men who have come up by the path of this knowledge stand face to face with the men who have been climbing in the path whose signboards are such as "Duty," "Worship," "Aspiration;" and the question arises, Do our paths lie henceforth together, or do they separate, and is the one party losing its travel?
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