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But Eliph' Hewlitt did not leave them there; he tucked them under his arm, and hurried away with brisk little steps. "There ought to be a license agin book agents," said Pap Briggs spitefully, when Eliph' Hewlitt had hurried away. "It wouldn't harm that feller," said Wilkins. "He's a red hot one at book-agenting, he is, an' he'd find out some way to git round it.

I hear lot of book agents that come round this way tell of him. He's got a record of sellin' more copies of that encyclopedia book of his than any one man ever sold of any one book, an' he's a sort of hero of the book-agenting business. It makes me proud to call to remembrance that him an' me was kids together down at Franklin, years ago.

"'Just a little salubrious an' entertainin' canvassin' for a work of genius, he says. 'A few heart-to-heart talks with the educated ladies of Gallops Junction an' Tomville on the beauties of the "Wage of Sin." That ain't no book-agenting, says he, 'that's pickin' money off the trees. It's pie ready cut an' handed to us on a plate with a gilt edge. All we've got to do is to bite it.

It's our duty to chuck them poems into them minds, an' to intellectooally subside them clamors. "I shook my head quite strenuous. "'Nix for me! I remarked; 'no book-agenting for me. "'Who said book-agenting?" asked Sammy, deeply offended. 'Do you calculate that the son of a high-class author of a famous an' helpful book would turn book agent? Never! "'What then? I asks him.

We can't make her agree to stay with us a day longer than I say is a necessity for safety." "Where does she want to go? Not back to that infernal book-agenting?" There was a frown between King's well-marked brows. "Yes, I imagine that's what she intends. She's a very decided young person, and there's not much use telling her what she must and must not do.