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He took out a dollar bill and held it toward Eliph'. The book agent ignored it. "Think of it," he said. "Bill Rossiter on the third floor, burning up, and me on the floor below with this book in my hand reading off of page 418 the names of the simple ingredients that would " "Mebby I might as well pay the whole five right now," said Skinner, taking four more dollars out of his drawer.
"Are you deeply interested in the field?" he inquired graciously. "Well, you se," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "I was cast away on one of those desert islands myself once, and I know what those poor heathen must suffer for lack of churches and civilization, and good books to read. I can feel for them."
I run my eye down the page till I came to 'Drowned, How to Revive the, page 96; and what I read there saved my life." The ladies sighed with relief. "What shall I say about my four long years on that island?" said Eliph'. "I was the only man on it. Oh, the pangs of solitude! Oh, the terrors of being alone! But, ladies and gents, I suffered none of them. I was not alone.
First it was necessary to become well acquainted; then it was advisable to proceed to give small presents, books or flowers or sweets being particularly mentioned, and Eliph' Hewlitt would never have thought of doing first the thing Jarby's Encyclopedia advised doing second. He had been selling Jarby's for many years.
He decided that the only course for him to follow was to omit his canvass of the interlying farms and of the town of Clarence for the present, and follow Miss Sally to Kilo. When the picnic ended, Irontail had released the rein, and Eliph' Hewlitt drove off, well pleased with his day's work.
Eliph' Hewlitt arose from his chair and tucked the oilcloth-covered parcel that had been lying on his knees under his left arm. He was a small man, and his movements were apt to be short and jerky. "Missionary sale?" he said briskly. "I guess I'll go around and look in on it. Strangers welcome, I suppose? I'm rather fond of missionary sales, and I think the world and all of the heathen.
"You're right sure there ain't goin' to be no charges to this?" he asked anxiously, and when the attorney had once more assured him there would be none, he picked his hat from the floor and shuffled into the hall and down the stairs. When Eliph' Hewlitt reached the Briggs house, he did not hesitate, but walked right up to the front door and rang the bell.
The only real damage seemed to have been done to Eliph's spectacles, which he had shaken off in his efforts, and which had been crushed beneath a heel. The attorney presently smiled, but it was a silly smile, and then he went out of the door and down the street. Eliph' coughed gently behind his hand, as if to excuse his intrusion. "Quarreling?" he suggested.
There were three more exactly like it in the box. "What is it?" asked Miss Sally nervously. It looked explosive. The gingerly manner in which the Colonel handled the dangerous-looking thing aroused her suspicions. She backed away from it. Eliph' Hewlitt opened his lips to speak, but the attorney motioned him to be still. "Don't you know what it is?" Miss Sally asked, appealing to the Colonel.
I began at page one," continued Eliph', opening the book in his hands, "skipping the allegorical frontispiece in three colors, and the index in which ten thousand " "I thought you was goin' to tell me about William Rossiter," said the butcher suspiciously.
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