New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-05

led me across the street the nearest saloon "hcn
he said triumphantlv "That's what | call selling
~Call it whatever you want to, | SAID, I'll never
Use it-not while there hundreds OF blind men in
the country holding out tin cups with money IN them.
| may be a robbcr; but there is some remnant o pity
in nv heart I'm going to buy blackjack and Jimmy
and look for honest work.
And | really believed what | said. But next Jay the
devil whispered in my ear couldn't resist the ompta-
ton TO try McGuircS canvass a hali-dozcn time and
at the end Of the day had made more mono. han
supposed there was anywhere IN the world. J mark
Of Cain was upon me- From that time forth hard
was against every mans hand, and every man hand
against mine.
WHEN the strike at the factory was Over .y sent
w me a notice to come back to work; bur aughod
AZ them. and threw it away | was making money
in dav-somc dayS-than had ever bcor ... ODD
week was matching my wits against The . i those
who held good Jobs and looked dsdaintulls .nlI
was beating them at their own game
chase ran through my veins Behind
there was money for me II | would h ,,
rockets were created only for my br ' bands were
divided into fingers that they migi' the more easily
close round pencil; eyes were designed by Heaven
be fixed upon dotted lines Even today old ae am,
have not lost the love Of the game. Let well Id lawyer
cross my trail and am like dog at oasH thc .e Il
nearly bald old gentleman with white whi-Aer5, t'g
behind a mahogany desk in bank, Is To- me as Oh. j
Of smoke to a fire horse Iurl me into the air a q l-
sand miles and bv some sixth sense | will alight
town where the school teachers have Just been ,'L
And never expect to live 50 long that the sight
doctor stepping out OF an automobile ana cnteuh- N
home alone will leave me unmoycd
1t was a little more than twenty years ag" i'
frs, heard that canvass from the lips OF Al MDO..-.
In those wears | have worked in almost every CT.
town i'm the country with every sort OF canvass tI
ingenuity of bookmcn has been able 10 devise. I.
certain celebrated parsonage mentioned IN the B,..,
have gone up and down in the land and back and
in il: for there is not in all the world more ar
independent individual than the successful book az -
| have spent most of my winters in Florida and 81
summers somewhere between the two Portland, B
have been present at every great exposition, al .
Mar Gras. and at pretty nearly every other ALTAR b.
national importance. Sometimes have had plenty
money. and at other times none but Dull Care has ncyo
been a companion OF mine on any OF my trips. The
4 publishing Office in almost every city where my ..,
is good for fifty dollars request: and | have
to "touch the wire as we say in the business 10
me transportation and an advance from any one a
hundred different managers.
How many books have you sold in your life, nc
who is guilcess once asked me. And answered.
81 never sold book in my life | sell bargain.
And therein. Gentle Reader, lies one OF the lest
commentaries that can be passed upon the wcakr q
YOU and your kind know YOU, and all your gra ny
bargain hunting sort, and charge you with The ."r
ription and ruin Of all honest book agents my-o M
cludcd | would have brought you Shakespeare. nt
YOU would not: | must pcrforce kndle fire IN yon.
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