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Show t "V WOES OF A BOOK AGENT. x (Cohiinucd from page 2.) Ive got one hero with all that In and more too; it' got them same verses and pictures too.-- I t hink a heap of this ook as my great grand aunt give it to mo when I was a bov and ifcbeals ati d concc-uithem all to nieces. guess I dont want to subscribe for ourn, and von go away wishing he had i bought to make that remark an hour W e will hot 6 BE UNDERSOLD ON ANYTHING BY ANYBODY. I V s new-fangle- . WE ARE MAKING REDUCTIONS THAT SIMPLY nature and getting more experience than subscribers, and finally you come to the outskirts of the city and Mansfield & Murdock cx-iperlen- DEFY COMPETITION. Our Go o d ce WliRH BOUGHT FOB THE LEGITIMATE KVERY-DA- I TRADE, NOT FOR SPECIAL SALES, AND ARE ALL STANDARD. 1 bu-.m- find i Season, sooner. s The next specimen yooencounter a truly magnanimous interest in a our efficiency as an agent and sacrifice's a half hour of his valuable lime to look at your interesting engravings and Jisten to your instructive explanations, .ami then says that he lias more books than he can read and dont wisli to subscribe. but that you have had t lie of conversing with him, and ) on walk out wishing that you could 1t ink of some polite way of telling him hat you are after subscribers instead of experience And so you go on, making calls and finding new specimens of dis-jday- i i 'During 'Stock-takin- g that just here sidewalks have ) an been .ignored and the road itself, after crossing an eight-foo- t canal, grrdnally fades out and disappears among the sagebrush in the distance. There is a house on the other side of the canal and you look about for some way of crossing that -trip of water and observe an object on the other side of the street which looks like a foot bridge but which on examination proves to be a very shaky log thrown across the stream near a shaky e fence, with a shaky looking at one side and a cow with shaking horns at the other end and you conclude that you dont want to vi i t hat house very bad and ,you retrace steps to the corner and il en walk around Ji"e blocks wl:hTlJostreets running, be- i ween them, to get over to -- the next W. H. FARNSWORTH, Superintendent. drtammmmmmmmmm mmimmmmms mud-puddi- cross-lookin- g -- street. And thusyoujpersevereand get laughed at, and frowned at, and sympathized with, and discouraged, and footsore and weary ahdf go home at the close of tlie day with a great deal of experience and one subscriber, and wish i hat you were anything in the world lint a Jmokjigcnt. You would then feel an unbounded admiration for editors, and wish you had brains, and cheek, -- and the other necessaries and you would be an ed Iio r to o. Then -- you wow d n t Iiavo ToiTcrnTTvassing, for people would rush to subscribe for vour paner and t iimhle over each oilier in -- heir - eagerness to mivyou in alvance. Hot you 1 1 'and that wouldnt get the experience, ' ' worth somethingr I is The Gem And while we Have your attention, let us announce that we have put in -- A Stock of Goods, AND CIGARS, WINES, LIQUORS In Variety and Purely, Excellence of Flavor, and in every vv a y S u p e r i o r to a n yt li in "carried in the city. We invito your inspection. i A,H. FENNEMORE, MANGR. I |