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Updated: May 15, 2025
Presently I was in a relapse, and it was all darkness to me, and oblivion. When at last I got well enough to travel, I set my face toward the east, and journeyed on foot through the northern coal regions of Pennsylvania by slow stages, caring little whither I went, and earning just enough by peddling flat-irons to pay my way.
Second: If only they could find an opening for a nice, paying gents' furnishing business in a live little town that wasn't swamped with that kind of thing already they'd buy it and settle down like a white man, by George! and quit this peddling. The missus hates it anyhow; and the kids know the iceman better than they do their own dad. On the morning that Mrs.
You see me peddling medicine on the street, says I, 'to the poor. I don't practice personal magnetism on them. I do not drag it in the dust, says I, 'because they haven't got the dust. "'Will you treat my case? asks the Mayor. "'Listen, says I. 'I've had a good deal of trouble with medical societies everywhere I've been. I don't practice medicine.
Peddling was so common, that nothing could now be made in that line; and besides, it took some capital to start with a thing that was out of the question in our ex-official's case. The only chance now open for him was the railroad, and to the railroads he said he would betake himself as soon as he could.
And, certainly, no class of men were ever better fitted for an occupation, than were those for "peddling." The majority of them were young men, too; for the "Yankee" who lives beyond middle age, without providing snug quarters for the decline of life, is usually not even fit for a peddler.
Still in smaller quantities there was no paucity of human misery here: separately older men without vocation and with glazed eyes gazed onto rain that, for the most part, they probably did not consciously register; salesmen stood aimlessly behind fruit and noodle carts that were instruments of servitude and sustenance they were invisibly chained to; and hack tradesmen from shoe repairmen to homemade broom salesmen sought refuge from the rain not only for themselves but for that which they were peddling.
Her mention of shipping offices disturbed him. He had much business with shipping offices; and he was picturing to himself, involuntarily and with distaste, that gentle courage bruising itself upon the rough husks of managers and their like, peddling itself from one noisy Russian office to another, wearing thin its panoply of innocence upon evil speech and vile intention.
"I'd hope she don't go around peddling that story not that anyone would believe it, but " Good Indian looked at her, and at Evadna. He opened his lips for speech, and closed them without saying a word. That near he came to telling them the truth about meeting Miss Georgie, and explaining about the hair and the knife and the footprints Hagar had prated about.
This remark was so unexpected and yet so forcibly true, that I laughed assent. "So you're the only ones up here," he continued. "I expected as much when I heard of the raid on the office. I was up in the North doing a little bit of peddling round the country, when I read the news, and I thought I'd come to London to see what was up. What do you think of doing with the paper anyway?
"I wish it was peddling old shoes!" said Judy. "Why?" several asked. "It won't be anything as respectable. We've taken to turning old coats at our house." "Go ahead, Davy!" cried Norton. But David was deliberate about it. He finished his writing, and looked up. "I think my capital is myself," he said with a smile.
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