Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-12-19
e BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE CITY OF BAYOU SARA.

contempt for the business. I went INTO
one Office where there we're eleven
young men, who at once began guying
me un mercifully turned on them
and gave them a good-siScd piece of my
mind, and before ! left got eight
orders
~ had one very funny experience
with an old man, the proprietor Of a
large tin shop. He tried to escape me.
but I followed him upstairs and down
and finally cornercd him. told him
it would only take two little dollars
and half; that it wasn't much to him,
but meant SO much to me. got hiA
order at last, and when delivered the
book he handed me two little gold dol.
lars done up in tissue paper which he
had kept months for me.
II was getting an order in q large
carriage mandatory when man sit
ting by, and whom ! had not even
asked to buy a book, said: I'll take
one Of your books II! you'll agree to de-
willing, and he put down his name
don't know to this day what that man
could have had against me, for when l
delivered the boo;s his wife abused me
frightfully. She told me | ought to be
ashamed Of myself going round the
country and wheedling men out of
their money. Wasn't that delightful?
II shall never forget one night in the
lonely outskirts of Philadelphia. had
secured nine orders and was anxious to
get the tenth before returning. 1t was
q drcary autumn evening, nearly dark.
and the neighborhood was very lonely
l knocked at high gate, which was
opened by little old man. l stated
my business and was told to come in.
did so, and he shut the gate and
locked it behind me. was in the yard
of a tannery, and to reach the office
was obliged to go through: long, low,
dark shed. The old man went ahead
carrying a candle. You cannot fancy
a more gloomy place than this horrible
old building. The candle hickered be-
fore me, my feet slipped on the Shiny
floor, stumbled against projecting
beam and down ] went, my book going
one way and muff another, spoiled my
gown and was sick in bed for a week
from that fall However. l got my
order.
There were some curious characters
among the agents with whom came in
contact There was Sophie. who was
always sent to the wharves and among
the shipping. She was big blonde,
afraid of nothing. She would 60 on
any ship at any hour. If the gang
plank did not happen to be laid she
would seize a rope and swing herself
over the ships side. Sometimes she
would go in an Office. pick up broom
and sweep the floor. saying she couldn't
sell book in SO dirty a room and
talking away continually as to the
merits of her book. She would talk to
the rough 'longshoremen in their own
language and always make them buy.
Then there was Kitty. who was a
saucy little beauty She would walk
into an Office, throw down her book as
if in rage and say: There's! l don't
care rap il ] don't sell the con-
founded old book! OF course, she al
ways got orders from her very indif.
ference.
~ could train class Of girls beauti.
fully to do this business, but. as for
me, will wash dishes, make beds,
sweep, bake and mend before | will
ever go into it again. You are simply
a nuisance; nobody wants to see you.
and everybody despises you."-N. Y.
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