*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1390 *** the jimmyjohn boss and other stories by owen wister to messrs. harper & bothers and henry mills alden whose friendliness and fair dealing i am glad of this chance to record owen wister preface it's very plain that if a thing's the fashion-- too much the fashion--if the people leap to do it, or to be it, in a passion of haste and crowding, like a herd of sheep, why then that thing becomes through imitation...