[Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt Talmage]@TWC D-Link bookAround The Tea-Table CHAPTER XXII 4/8
But some time the man forgets himself, and finds he is in front of the new clothing store, and, at the first gleaner of goods in the show window, is tempted to enter.
Push comes up behind him, and Pull comes up before him, and the man is convinced of the shabbiness of his present appearance--that his hat will not do, that his coat and vest and all the rest of his clothes, clean down to his shoes, are unfit; and before one week is past, a boy runs up the steps of this customer with a pasteboard box marked, "From the clothing establishment of Push & Pull.
C.O.D." These men can do anything they set their hands to--publish a newspaper, lay out a street, build a house, control a railroad, manage a church, revolutionize a city.
In fact, any two industrious, honorable, enterprising men can accomplish wonders.
One does the out-door work of the store, and the other the indoor work.
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