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 One of the four, as they turned away, remarked, "It's easy enough to find something to do when you're a well-known athlete."

Another remarked, "Deacon would not have got that job on his football record if he hadn't had a high stand in class."

Lucky Lee said, "Neither one would have counted him anything in this case. It was pulling those weights in the window that did it. Old Mr. Henderson said that the young man who had the gumption to push ahead and try everything until he got something, no matter what, was the kind of a man he was looking for; and I tell you that's the kind that succeeds in business."