The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-10-17
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up, Out Wnat aDOut a place tnaC mas
no road, no people, no advantages
Not every neighborhood is worth
it. Tell me one thing for instance
you could do at place like Ports.
mouth Island" the Drummer said
81 could make million dollars
on Portsmouth Island in three
years." said the Old Sea Captain,
and it wouldn't cost much money
to do it."
81 don't see,-" began the as.
tonished Drummer.
"Of course you don't see," said
the Old Sea Captain. "You are like
other people with eyes but can't
see. What I've been trying to tell
you is it takes vision and work
and scheming to do things. Them
that have don't have by accident.
much as we like to believe.
"Now / am going to tell you how
to make a million in any place on
this coast. It's wonder it isn't done
at Catfish Corner. That Ports
mouth has no roads makes no diff
ference; for what would start
there, people would come from the
ends of the earth. In fact / know
plan that would grow to be
greater than all the enterprises or
this coast in the past 100 years
"You sound to me out of your
head" said the Drummer.
81 never was more in my right
mind" said the Old Man with
some spirit. you're out of your
head, but since started to tell you
am going to tell how, if was q
younger man and wanted to make
money, could make a million Oh
Portsmouth. And there's no end t.
the millions that can be made.
"You see, my boy in this cas'
I'd sell knowledge; there is a lo
of valuable knowledge among III
old people on the Coast. We had t.
grow up and live our lives withou
the benefits of doctors and books
We. had to learn things for our
selves, from nature, and by expert
ence. 1t is generally known by thu
older married couples on THU
coast how to order any kind of ba
by we wanted, boy or girl. IT.
knowledge we had to have in thu
old days. Families needed lot o.
sons to help carry on the hunting
the heavy work, the fishing; W.
needed a certain amount of girl
to do the spinning and weaving ant
cooking. We couldn't let things rul
wild and trust to luck in thos,
days;it was just too costly to MAKE
mistakes, and too much time would
be lost.
"The secret is tied up with thu
moon and the tide, and we know
just how to take advantage OF
these natural forces so that oul
plans never failed. The only mis-
takes would be made by head
strong young people who JUS
couldn't wait, but any young folks
who could hold their horses a day
or two and listen to the old folks
soon got on to the secret. l can tel
you SO couples who ordered theil
children just like they wanted
them, and got results.
"You know just about ever!
couple wants boy the first time
especially the Jewish people, ant
they have the money. l could opel
me a clinic, even if it's on Ports
mouth Island, or anchored on thu
Diamond Shoals for all that, ant
by gosh they'd come to it. l woul'
hire me a qualified physician; ad
vertise to the world that all young
couples who would come and spent
a month at my place for $1,000
and would follow our directions
would in nine months be the pa
rents of boy or girl. according t,
! their choice. l would guarantee j
if our directions were followed, O
would pay a forfeit of $4,000.
have the secret, and will give it t.
anyone who really wants to maxi
a million dollars in short time.
at sounds impossible to me,
said the Drummer.
eyes, my boy, that's why 81
many people are kicking them
selves today about the money the.
could have made at doing this, tina
or the other thing. They said
/ couldn't be done, and sat aroun,
until some other fellow came alon;
and did it."
! "The Drummer said no more
with an air of a man who coul'
not be convinced, and he entere'
the store to get his weekly orders
The old man, with an air of fulfil
assignment at the failure of tn
oxo1 Low