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Anybody can order, but to serve with grace, tact and
effectiveness is a fine art.


SAM


In San Francisco lived a lawyer—age, sixty—rich in money, rich in
intellect, a business man with many interests.

Now, this lawyer was a bachelor, and lived in apartments with his
Chinese servant “Sam.”

Sam and his master had been together for fifteen years.

The servant knew the wants of his employer as though he were his other
self. No orders were necessary.

If there was to be a company—one guest or a hundred—Sam was told the
number, that was all, and everything was provided.

This servant was cook, valet, watchman, friend.

No stray, unwished-for visitor ever got to the master to rob him of
his rest when he was at home.

If extra help was wanted, Sam secured it; he bought what was needed;