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The Secret of Success

7/16/2022

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Picture of dark blue Huckleberries on a dark green leafy Huckleberry Bush.
Image Credit: Photograph by Bruno Karklis - Used Under CC 3.0 - Adapted
The Secret of Success
 
One day in huckleberry time, when little Johnny Flails
     And half a dozen other boys were starting with their pails
To gather berries, Johnny’s pa, in talking with him, said
     That he could tell him how to pick so he’d come out ahead.

“First find your bush,” said Johnny’s pa, “and then stick to it till
     You’ve picked it clean. Let those go chasing all about who will
In search of better bushes, but it’s picking tells, my son.
     To look at fifty bushes doesn’t count like picking one.”

And Johnny did as he was told, and sure enough he found
     By sticking to his bush while all the others chased around
In search of better picking, ‘twas as his father said;
     For while the others looked he worked, and so came out ahead.

And Johnny recollected this when he became a man.
     And first of all he laid him out a well-determined plan.
So while the brilliant triflers failed with all their brains and push,
     Wise steady-going Johnny won by “sticking to his bush.”
 
by Nixon Waterman
 
Nixon Waterman was born on 12 November 1859 in Newark, Kendall County, Illinois, United States of America, as the son of Lyman Waterman and Elizabeth Waterman. He lived on a farm until he was 20 years of age, teaching school during the winter months, and began his newspaper career at 21 years of age in the mechanical department of a country weekly in Creston, Iowa. Mr. Waterman was married on 14 March 1883 to Nellie Haskins of Menasha, Wisconsin. Weary of being a press operator, he tried his hand at other branches of the business, and made rapid progress. He first won flattering recognition as a newspaper editorial writer in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved to Chicago in October 1889, where he supplied the editorial page of the Chicago “Herald” with witty and catchy rhymes printed under the caption, “Small Change,” which were copied in publications across America. When the proprietors of the “Herald” started the “Evening Post,” he was one of the coteries selected to create for that venture the conditions of popularity with the public. After seven months on the “Post,” he went back to the “Herald,” but a year later resigned to work for “Puck,” “Truth,” “Youth’s Companion” and other popular weekly newspapers and magazines. Nixon Waterman was a newspaper writer, a poet, a book author, and a Chautauqua lecturer. His first wife Nellie Waterman (maiden name Haskins) passed on sometime in 1940, and in November 1940, he married Grace Sanford Leavitt. Nixon Waterman passed on at 84 years of age on 1 September 1944 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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