Show MODEL SHOVEL SALESMAN Mory tur Tola 1011 of or lime Hit tl Duke Uk of ot n nil a u III A millionaire shovel ho el mak maker r as he lie le sat satIn tt In lit th hi smoking room 1001 of oC an nn Atlantic liner saidI said saidI I ha c ha e been over o to England trying to 0 soil sell s 1 shovels to lo time Iho Bri British Ish govern govern- go cr ment I failed Caled I didn't ll nt sell a shovel sho l. l A death dead man niami named Jones was the cause cuso of oC 1 my in eal failure Jones wn WO was alive CI very much nl alive during the lie battle batte of oC Waterloo Ho lie lu sat at on Ott 01 horseback near Wellington's tent tent emit V Wellington seen seeing him there hero In civilians civilian's civil cIvil- J c ian's ians lal's dress said salt angrily Who hO mire arc you ou shovel salesman said Jones I 1 am mini a n. n sno cl snit and I came lucre hero from Brussels to see seo tho lie brittle batlle V Now Non Xo that thai you are bore biere said sold Wellington Wel Wel- el lington are you yu OU willing to carr carry a i message for me inc to U one omie of or my 1 It I will wi bu be a dangerous errand but I 1 have o no one Onu o n else to lo sent send said Jones Ill 11 carry cairy your m Nail and as us for tor danger one omie part parl of or this Is no moro more dangerous another today today So Si Wellington gave o him hll the tue nies- nies sg antI and Jones Jones ed it I but failed to lo return The duke thought him slain tu but bul ono one day eight or nine years later hater n a i man malt accosted tho lie duke In London Di you OU remember mo mime me bo lie Il said ald I 1 do wild Wellington tm mans man's hand band warmly You Vou saved two to regiments of oC mine b by the lie cr cI delivery of that ini ly Why didn't you return V to lo me nie Jones said hIs bis horse hUll been beon killed by si II cannon ball bal as ns bu lie was returning and ind bo lie himself ha hail had been shot In thu ihie tide but not a badly a. a few days abed IUlI md brought him round roun Wel Well Vell said the lie duke what can an I Ido Ilo Iho lo ho for you your ou V In that shovel I 1 am am u a i partner parner house jf or ours now said Jones the firm finn 13 is Smith Jenkins Jones and amid d like to get gel u a government o contract contract Id He lie lk got It the lie millionaire ended d madly From roin that day to this all al the he shove shove-Is ho ls used In the tho British firma and lavy y lay have been supplied b by the house of if it Smith Jenkins amId JDnes I 1 wasted d to compete with that m ii ny u trying wih St. Irm St. St St. Louis Luis Globe Gol |