The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
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until afternoon. And I had but four
 stores more to- visit anyhow. We had cracking good lunch and felt Christmassier and Christmassier
 and then I ,borrowed ten dollars from him Git was the day after pay day but he still had it) and I paid for the lunch with my own money and set aside his to buy the rest of the books telling him I'd let him in for a Christmas dinner at Sherry's if I found the money.
 Well. that afternoon I took up my l march again and I went to stores where they had not only never heard of the book but had never heard of me. 1 You'd be astonished to find how
 many thousand people have never | heard of me, even now that the
 "Mudskowski" has made me famous. But although I spent all the rest of | the money I could not find bill in of the books and so, 1t being so close ! to Christmas I went around to the hos pital that's on the next block and left
 the books there. Convalescents are not very particular about what they fead
 and the Mudskowski sailed in pleas
 ant waters whatever else may have 1 been its defects.
 The day before Christmas I bought
 a copy of the only paper l ever read
 In the morning. because it is so | amusing and there on the first page | (but those of you who take 1t saw 1t
 for yourselves) there on the first page
 it said,
 "A chance, to win money. bill secreted in a book" It went on to say that the publish l CTS of the Cruise had put thousand dollar bill into a copy of it and that there was no telling who would get it, but that the book only cost a dollar fifty. and it was worth that for it's reading matter and would make rattling good Christmas present. WelL tell you knew what would happen. knew what I would do if read thing like that. And I'm just a human being like almost every body else.
 don't know whether it was that
 the reporter misunderstood me or whether he wanted to make a better
 the word publisher. said Reggy
 Stewart as plain as could be but of course if he had said I had bought all the books up and that there were not more than twenty in New York,
 no one would have thought 1t a
 good story, and I believe he wanted
 to help me.
 was in Maeywakers with Joe
 Climbers that morning. He had lent
 me fve dollars with which to buy
 something for the one who has since
 become my wife and he walked over
 to the book counter and while we
 were there a stylish looking young
 woman came hurriedly up to the desk
 and said:
 I'd like to look at a copy of The Cruise of the Mudskowski.' All out, but we have" The stylish young woman was red haired and she said:
 T think it's a perfect shame the way you people neglect to keep popu- lar books I've tried in two stores ! and cant get It."
 And then floor-walker came up ! and she began to storm him and while she was storming a man came up and asked for it, and then two
 boys came together and then an old
 lady and then trampish looking fel-
 low with his money all in small change. The floor walker went to see the manager Of the book department and
 the managers Of the book department telephoned ta Didd.. Mode & Co. for twenty copies as fast as they could send them. And before the day was over (as Il learned atterwardl they sent in two
 supplementary orders for a hundred l each.
 And as 1t was at Maeywakers. so it | regular book stores. It was wonderful how many people | bought the book and then hurried |
 away ike dog with a bone. I sup