Preface
_ Here is a Decoy Duck stuffed with Oysters.
The Duck is mere Fiction:
The Oysters are Facts.

If you find the Duck wholesome, and the Oysters hurt you, it is probably because you had a hand in the making of this bit of History, and in the creation of these Facts.
THE AUTHOR _


Chapter First
_ Good managers are made from messenger boys, brakemen, wipers and telegraphers； just as brave admirals are produced in due time by planting a cadet in a naval school. From two branches of the service come the best equipped men in the railroad world--from the motive-power department and from the train service. This one came from the mechanical department, and he spent his official life trying to conceal the fact--striving to be just to all his employees and to show no partiality towards the department from whence he sprang--but always failing.
"These men will not strike," h

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