The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
ELLPH HEWLETT
 ON MOVING. DAY
ouO the Exciten,ents of Noting Day Were Almost Too Much for the Mmble Book Agent and HoO Skill and Enthusiasm Finally Ouercame the
 Curiosity of Woman.

to show up the whole thing When you think that the price is only hve dollars. one dollar down and
 T know all about it," said the land- lord quickly, you sold me one the nrst day you came"
 q did" said Eliph Hewitt. and you've been a better man ever since. I can notice it. But if you done right you would buy a copy for every room in the house. It would raise the tone of your hotel, and please your boarders. There ain't nothing a boarder at hotel likes better than to go up to the room he has been given and ind copy of this book there. And 1t would save you money When a guest goes up to his room to wash up for dinner and finds a copy of this work on the bureau he dips into 1t and he gets So interested in the Five Hundred Gems of Prose and Poetry that he forgets to go down and eat. If you want twenty copies I'll make a special discount"
 Not today" said the landlord.
 I'll take it out in board suggested EIiph Hewlett. mildly.
 Well, I don't know" said the land lord. If that book Is IS interesting as you say 1t is, you might send me twenty copies and take your pay out in reading the one I'll put in your room. You'll get so interested you won't want to eat.
 "I would do 1t If I didn't know the whole book by heart, from cover to cover" said Eliph' Hewitt 50 I don't need to forget my meals. l can repeat parts of 1t to myself while I'm eating. It gives me an appetite"
 "I noticed it," the landlord said. II guess If 1t works that way with every body won't take any more copies un- til the price of eggs goes down."
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 You don't know any woman in this town that ain't moving and ain't trou- bled with curiosity, do you?" he asked "I might go around to her house and give her a chance to secure all the knowledge of the world in one volume if you did,"
 why don't you try Mrs Tucker if you ain't been there yet? I should judge she would be just the one to try today. She has been poking her nose into other peoples business for twenty years, and If there is stick of furni ture in this town that she don't know by heart, it must have been smuggled in at night and kept locked up in the bank" The landlord laughed. Mrs. Tucker ought to be glad to look at that book. The furniture of the town of Kilo won't satisfy her curiosity, be- cause she knows what other people have got in that line better than they do themselves
 Eliph' Hewitt tucked his oilcloth- covered parcel under his left arm and walked briskly down the street Mrs. Tucker lived In a corner house and she was at home. She was glad to seo Eliph' Hewitt and welcomed him into the parlor It was after the dinner hour of the Kilo Hotel when the little book agent dropped into the chair before the hotel and nervously wiped his face.
 Sell book7" asked the landlord.
 'I don't know" Eliph' Hewitt an- swered. weakly. 'T can't tell yet. My thoughts ain't collected yet. Why didn't you say Mrs. Tucker was sub ject to be took with fits?'
 Because she ain't." answered the landlord. Curiosity is all she Is liable to be took with, so far as I know. There ain't room In her for anything else, she is so full of that
 i've been selling this book" said the little book agent. "evor since it was