In due course it is inevitable that such a man should become part of the great army of discontented ne'er-do-wells who help to block the pavements in front of the loafing places.
Hesitation, vacillation and growing diffidence take the place of self-reliance.

He falls to the bottom like a stone.

And there he rests--a drag anchor in the mire.

His job gets the best of him because he lacks initiative.

Once stranded he becomes an arrant coward--_afraid of his own shadow_.
[Illustration: _A Scene from "In Again--Out Again"_] We must _make our own opportunities_ otherwise we are children of circumstance.