The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-26

git around to hear me give out informa- tion, and you could send the book to 'em, and git your moneys worth out of 1t that way. The more children you had the more you would git out of the book. If you had nine children you could git five dollars worth out of 1t, and that is what 1t costs. And if you had eight children you could git four dollars out of it; and three dollars out of it for seven, and two for six, and one for five, and none for four; and If you had three children you would only lose one dollar, and if you had two you'd lose two, and three for one; but you ain't got any children. so you lose Tour dollars by buyin that book. And that is only fig gerin' that you might have had nine children. Mebby you might have had twenty. And then look what you would lose! You. he said to Eiiph' Hewitt, didn't treat Daniel fair You ought to have give Daniel that book free and paid him five dollars for taking 1t That's what you ought to have done, to make up for what he lost by not ever havin' got married nor had any chill dren. But l don't want to be hard on you. All I ask Is that you should take that book back and we'll call 1t even. We won't ask you to pay Daniel no damages. Will we. Daniel"
 Nope" said Daniel, sadly.
 
 Hewitt, gently.
 You send the order in by telegraph, don't you?' said S. Potts. And the | book Is already on the road ain't it? | Well, that there volume of Cyclope- dium' Is so cheap at the price that you ought to be tickled to death to get a copy. You go around and suffer every | day because sellin' that book at five dollars is like throwin' it away. and ev- cry time you sell one you suffer an ex- | tra suffer. So me and Daniel is goin' | to give you a. chance to buy a copy and | feel the joy them that buys a copy feels. | bet you ain't bought a copy of that | Cyclopedium for long time. and you | ought to have one. It'll do you good. And I ain't goin' to force it on you, neither, but Daniel here only gifts paid | about one-twenty a week Tn wages. and | he can't afford to waste none of 1t buy | in 'Cyclopediums' I won't have 1t. He needs every cent of 1t, and If he's got to spend a dollar a month for that book until paid I'm goin' to cut off his pay and not give him cent for the next money for information he can pay 1t to me- I'm his Cyclopedium, and he don't need no other. Do you. Daniel? No, you don't"
 Eliph Hewitt stroked his sandy gray side whiskers thoughtfully. It was de- IedL, ana ne IedilZeu IL. Tie LOOK large white silver dollar from his pock- ct and put 1t in Daniels hand. It re- paid Daniel for the first lyment. the $1 down. Then. with bowed head. like Napolean after Waterloo. he went out of the gloom of the livery stable into the glare of the street. Daniel sighed.
 "S Potts" he said 1ongingly.'T wisht you had let me keep that book. sort of felt like I needed It."
 Now. hush up!" sd & Potts grossly" "Ain't you got me? And ain't I so full of information that 1t leaks out be- tween the slaves"
 "O' course you be. s. Potts" said Dan iel soothingly. 70 course you be! You beat all for that. Don't I always say SO? But you ain't illustrated. s. Potts. You ain't got no illuminated frontis- piece, nor no steel engravin's, nor no chromo- Autographs of the Russian war. If you was only as full of pictures as you are of information I wouldn't want nothin' else"
 Well. you look at the steel engrav in's on that there dollar" said s. Potts coldlv That's all the illuminated from tispiece you need, it'll do you more good than libr'y full O. chromo litho- Rraphs"