The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-26
FAT Drummer GETS
HIS YARN LOVER
TELLS or HIS FIRST TRIP ON THE
RoAp-WAs so SCARED THAT
HE COULD NOT MEET HIS GUS
ToM-pi o NOT MARRY THE GUS
TONER'S DAUGHTER.

II was much amused at your recent
story of the young commercial traveller
first trip. Let me tell YOU what hap
pened to me. / was always q scarry
sort of fellow" said the fat traveller
az he sat in the lobby OF the Meropole
. night or two ago waiting for the bus
to take him to the n. r. for the train
going east and when my dad got me
a place to sell notions on the road and
furnished me with several big sample
trunks, / was about as badly scared as
a youth of II years could be. 1t was
in vain that the old man, as the boys
called the head of the house explained
To me Just how to approach man, and
when after few lessons and talks ne
sat i'm a chair and told me to come
TO him Just as I would a stranger who
had a store and to whom ] wanted to
sell a bill, we'll, kind of braced up and
did the act in good style, and the old
man complimented me highly on re-
Numbering. the lessons ! had been
taught. II is needless to say that l felt
pretty good, and that afternoon | took
the train for town fifty miles away
from Pittsburg, Pa, with firm de-
termination to do or die in the attempt.
1t was only a few minutes over an
hours ride to the town, and / knew
just where the particular store that
was told to go to first was located.
AS / alighted from the train a lump
arose in my throat bigger than goose
egg and by the time reached the place
couldn't have said good afternoon to
the man to have saved my life.
reached the store door, put my foot
on the step then hesitated and walked
past. made a block and then came back
again, and once more attempted to en-
ter. but couldn't make the rifle, and
again / took another walk. chewed the
| end of the cigar / was smoking and
swallowed the juice of the tobacco UNI
| til was half sick. I'll bet | did that
| same thing for as much as half an
hour. had sent my trunks to the no.
| tel and had 'phoned over for sample
room. which was given me and all
| had TO do was to walk in and ask the
merchant to drop over to the hote
| that evening and have dinner with me
and I couldn't do it. / knew him by
sight and when he came out of the store
! Just as had attempted to break in fo'
the 'steenth time, he stopped me ant
| shook hands with me, and said he nae
| heard that | was now a drummer
murmured that / had just started anc
| that his store was the first one that
| had been assigned to enter. He asked
me in. offered me cigar, and took ms
into his private office and soon aftei
| he asked me to take dinner with hin
that night at the same hotel l wa
stopping at, and of course / consented
We had our dinner, but | was still 81
illustrated that / couldn't eat, and
was afraid to breach the subject of thu
sample trunks up in the second story
talked about the weather and every
thing else that came into my head ant
| the merchant knew that | was simply
fiabbergasted, for after looking at mt
a minute he said, We'll, we will go ul
stairs and take a look at what you'vt
got A load that weighed ten ton wa
/ lifted off my heart and we went to thu
elevator, and nervously / threw opel
the trunks and showed him the who'll
business. without asking me mucl
about the prices he gave me the fines
kind of an order, and was profuse il
my thanks and after the sales wer
made he took me to the theatre am
out to his house where ] spent tn
night and had a nice breakfast and wa
introduced to his charming daughter
No, / didn't get married to her, TO
just about the time the wedding wa
to be pulled off | woke up. | ha
been dreaming" and the fat commercis
traveller walked over to the windoV
and looked out, and the hotel reporte
was left alone with his meditations.