Excerpt from In the Arena: Stories of Political Life Plenty of men go to pot horse-racing and stock gambling; and I guess this has just been my way of working off some of my nature in another fash ion. There's a good many like me, too; not out for office or contracts, nor anything that you can put your finger on in particular nothing except the game. Of course, it's a pleasure, knowing you've got more influence than some, but I believe the most you ever get out of' it is in being able to help your friends, to get a man you like a job, or a good contract, something he wants, when he needs it. I tell you then's when you feel satisfied, and your time don't seem to have been so much thrown away. You go and buy a higher-priced cigar than you can afford, and sit and smoke it with your feet out in the sunshine on your porch railing, and watch your neighbour's children play ing in their yard; and they look mighty nice to you; and you feel kind, and as if everybody else was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.