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Updated: September 28, 2025
"I can feel my fingers burn to this day where the frozen fodder sawed and rasped 'em in winter and the hot plough-handles bit and blistered 'em in summer. And then, afterwards, those old St. Louis days meant hard pulling, too, of another kind. From grocery clerk, to dry-goods clerk, to old Peele's real estate office, it was pull, pull, if not over one thing, over another.
He was fairly toppling from the dry-goods box. His eyes were popping from his head, and in the flickering candlelight his face looked strained and queer. In after life she became very familiar with that expression; she saw it on all types of faces. In fact, she came to expect to see it there. But she did not know how to analyze it then.
For a fact, it was where the Mexican women come to do their clothes-washing, and just back from the river was a little 'dobe house flat-topped, and the size and shape of a twelve-foot-square dry-goods box the women kept their washing things in. But them was particulars the Hen didn't happen to mention to Boston at the time.
"That sounds mighty like Ed. Butler," said the dry-goods man. Occasionally a traveling salesman meets at the hotel or on the train the head of some large house, who is making a trip for special reasons of his own. Such a man is always sure to be affable with every one, but he is especially conciliatory to the salesmen he meets on his route.
But my tastes are more for mercantile business." "I may be able to find you a place somewhere. I have a friend in the dry-goods business, who would receive you at my recommendation." "Thank you!" said Frank, hastily. "But if you will allow me, I would prefer to look around for myself." "What is it you want, then?" "Your permission to go out into the world, and try to make a living."
"Ellen Putney, I don't see how you ever got over that. Those two lovely, healthy children gone, and poor little Winthrop left! I always did say it was too hard." She had married a clerk in the principal dry-goods store, who had prospered rapidly, and was now one of the first business men of the place, and had an ambition to be a leading citizen.
Their credits in London, Paris, and Amsterdam are running out; they are anxious to make remittances; and then ensues one of those dry-goods panics so characteristic of New York and its mixed multitude; an avalanche of goods descends upon the auction-rooms, and prices drop ten, twenty, forty per cent., it may be, and the unlucky or short-sighted men who made early purchases are in desperate haste to run off their stocks before the market is irreparably broken down.
Our escape was probably owing to our appearance, which promised anything but a rich booty. Our dry-goods and powder were concealed in casks under he ballast, and I suppose the papers were not particularly minute. At any rate, when we get into Para, most of the cargo went out of our schooner privately, being landed from lighters.
"I daresay your own ancestors were not always patricians." Fletcher winced. He knew well enough that his father commenced life as a boy in a country grocery, but in the mutations of fortune had risen to be the proprietor of a large dry-goods store on Washington Street. None of the family cared to look back to the beginning of his career.
How mistaken this estimate is will appear, as we advance to something like a comprehensive survey of the dry-goods jobber's sphere. First, then, he is a buyer of all manner of goods, wares, and materials proper to his department in commerce. He is minutely informed in the history of raw materials.
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