Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — Getting the Start of a Book Agent. [ARTICLE]

Getting the Start of a Book Agent.

He came in briskly and sat down with a jerk. One end of his paper collar reared over his left ear; a qualmy smell.of last week’s clothes hung about http,-) He tul-ned hie glass eyes upon tu, and loosening his ihdia rubber tongue, he began: / “ The Universal History of the,Universe —in 2,000 installments—lifty cents an installment—3oo engravings ” “ stoo my friehd. ..Refitfgin the intellectual floto-Hjarrf ’ up, that torrent of eloquence . Listen td me-n4o yoq know.what has come to me since J' saw you last ? It vygfi in Qcto — r— '*’ “sut,Bir t ” interrupted the book agent, “youneyetsaw ino before!*' . “Never sayv youl,impossible! Could any one.who bad onae gazed on those noble lineaments ever forged that coy wart on mose ever be fqrgotten—or that eloquent mole on your, iron jaw. Never; never!-It was in October that I met you .last. —Blessed October—that montirof ripeness and sober passion! DbVotf'know of trtl rite *months iff the year October is HILL’* • ** •nsevTS'' ‘ - Pardon me. si?,’aimed the‘book agent, rollitfg'his brass eyelids in desperation; “you jjifcrf--, v . “Pardon me, sir; J cannot. Allow any man to 1 hold the rein]) of con vepsatioa over me—l will not be interrupted—tip resume: my great grandmother tile Woman of 'her agfc tJjyxt you ever sain. She was 13sj yews'old; and yet was a chipper as the best 6f . us. My brother, who was an inventive man, put her on a pair of wheels, find it woulq. have done vou good to have seen her scoot around. I suppose Ours was the only family who could boast of a grandmother on wheels, and yet : ? 21 • “But, ttfr, I am m a great hurry, and ’’ ? " You must positively not interrupt me, my friend. As I was.saying before, when a man has a family growing up abound him, tt is hard tofiay-Whieh qae he loves best. - And yet that boy of mine, with a strawheiry mark on his left ear.':-’There's a queer story connoted witti that strawberry mark that Would please Jou—have you a child f v “I am the father of thirteen miserable children, ’’ be replied. > fr Ah, then, you can sympathise with my story: You liave baan a father yourself! Ah, who can sound the depth of a father’s; love I It is a-* deep as an artesian watt, as high as. a liberty pole. It soars like a Chinese kiter it grovels l*ke a ground-hog. It ia sweet lo be.a father. It gives ius a new life, and tills us With a *VESS&!SM w outfhe arid desp^amagent. “Now, theteyou again, You throw me out every tjme: But to get back to our. eonyersatjoik.' thinklie'wae the sWeetest pog l ever saw- Although lie wan quite yopng when he, was tmcmjw saqmed to take,,to, learning jiaturally., When I Would send, Lim to drive pqt of the yartj, he. would tqke the,pigs patronizingly by the ear.” ; , Just here the book agfe-n food, Ms ,steel, joints snapping; Viciously. “Ho hast; one wild, scared'took luouudh'nijdla *ade for the door.- HaVitfg' fdSSWd the door, he turned aid looked baejk hungrily. Hebrightened UP, as if he were goingu> open, .the eodvewatidh Again,J>nt he gulped his sorrow down hastily and fled. ,• a-; 1 “ Come back and see- ■4« agtti*v>*' we colled, blandly, oyer the sjafrXd?* You. are such a good listener it’s a pleasure to talk to you. Yes, come'again! -Come during the next Centennial! '—Atlanta “ThelPeculiar People " They seem tobe in a little now, one of their number. Jofth Downs,' having lieen conJohn relied upon prayer and annotating the body wHW dR-Jb* Mptenced to* I.’ ’ * vn>S'.'*V i-,*.s*»i

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