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    A Plea for Old Cap Collier
    A Plea for Old Cap Collier
    A Plea for Old Cap Collier
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    A Plea for Old Cap Collier

    By Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Plea for Old Cap Collier - Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Plea for Old Cap Collier, by Irvin S. Cobb

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      Title: A Plea for Old Cap Collier

      Author: Irvin S. Cobb

      Release Date: October 30, 2008 [EBook #1891]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER ***

      Produced by Kirk Pearson, and David Widger

      A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER

      By Irvin S. Cobb

      To Will H. Hogg, Esquire

      For a good many years now I have been carrying this idea round with me. It was more or less of a loose and unformed idea, and it wouldn't jell. What brought it round to the solidification point was this: Here the other week, being half sick, I was laid up over Sunday in a small hotel in a small seacoast town. I had read all the newspapers and all the magazines I could get hold of. The local bookstore, of course, was closed. They won't let the oysters stay open on Sunday in that town. The only literature my fellow guests seemed interested in was mailorder tabs and price currents.

      Finally, when despair was about to claim me for her own, I ran across an ancient Fifth Reader, all tattered and stained and having that smell of age which is common to old books and old sheep. I took it up to bed with me, and I read it through from cover to cover. Long before I was through the very idea which for so long had been sloshing round inside of my head—this idea which, as one might say, had been aged in the wood—took shape. Then and there I decided that the very first chance I had I would sit me down and write a plea for Old Cap Collier.

      In my youth I was spanked freely and frequently for doing many different things that were forbidden, and also for doing the same thing many different times and getting caught doing it. That, of course, was before the Boy Scout movement had come along to show how easily and how sanely a boy's natural restlessness and a boy's natural love for adventure may be directed into helpful channels; that was when nearly everything a normal, active boy craved to do was wrong and, therefore, held to be a spankable offense.

      This was a general rule in our town. It did not especially apply to any particular household, but it applied practically to all the households with which I was in any way familiar. It was a community where an old-fashioned brand of applied theology was most strictly applied. Heaven was a place which went unanimously Democratic every fall, because all the Republicans had gone elsewhere. Hell was a place full of red-hot coals and clinkered sinners and unbaptized babies and a smell like somebody cooking ham, with a deputy devil coming in of a morning with an asbestos napkin draped over his arm and flicking a fireproof cockroach off the table cloth and leaning across the back of Satan's chair

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