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The Company

by Mark Starowicz


1. Timothy Comes to the Big Town

Early to bed
Early to rise
Never get tight
And -- ADVERTISE!

--methodist preacher's slogan

It's doubtful that even an Eaton's publication today would write of Timothy Eaton the way a company history wrote of the founder in 1919:

He reminds one of Cromwell smashing into the effete Parliament of Charles I, or of Cecil Rhodes founding a commonwealth among savages.

...to be continued


"The Company" appeared in Last Post, ???? (Vol.?? #?, pp.11-??)
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