title: Post-it Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon, Embarrassing Mishaps, and Everyday Adventure
author: Arthur Jones
description: Read a story per day and savor it.<b>George Gene Gustines, <i>New York Times</i></b>
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
  Richard Harding Davis
  
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  # THE MAKE-BELIEVE MAN
  
  
  ## Richard Harding Davis
  
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  I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking
  adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough--
  I was twenty-five last October--and have always gone half-way to meet them,
  adventures avoid me. Kinney says it is my fault. He holds that if you want
  adventures you must go after them.
  
  
  Kinney sits next to me at Joyce Carboy's, the woollen manufacturers, where I
  am a stenographer, and Kinney is a clerk, and we both have rooms at Mrs.
  Shaw's boarding-house. Kinney is only a year older than myself, but he is
  always meeting with adventures. At night, when I have sat up late reading law,
  so that I may fit myself for court reporting, and in the hope that some day I
  may become a member of the bar, he will knock at my door and tell me 