OCR Text |
Show TO THE POINT. For many years a traveling peddler named Luce has been a well-known character in the country towns of New England. His route lies mostly within Maine and New Hampshire, where he sells needles, pins, soap, extracts, etc., and is always a welcome guest at the isolated farmhouses where he calls. Unlike most itinerant peddlers, he is a man of few wo.rds. Last winter while driving down one of the long hills of North Conway his horse, becoming frightened, ran, finally bringing up at the foot of the hill with an overturned cart, beneath which lay the unfortunate owner, unable to extricate extri-cate himself from the wreck. A mountaineer moun-taineer approaching asked, with typical brevity. "Tight?" "No," returned the Yankee, "Luce." Harper's Weekly. |