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Updated: May 10, 2025
If you can scare up something of that kind, I think you can do some business with them there. I'll take you over, if you like. "I didn't want him to turn around because I knew that he, too, would see that old white horse and that I'd never get him to budge an inch until he had spoken with Reidy if he did, and the old horse was coming trot! trot! trot! closer every minute.
I knew that if he got his eyes on Reidy I would have to scramble for the old man's coin. So I managed to get him seated with his back toward the direction from which Reidy would come to town. The old man always drove a white horse. As I talked to my competitor I kept looking up the road I could see for nearly half a mile for that old white horse.
I got on the line with my old grain dealer friend and he said he'd be in town right after dinner. I would have gone out to see him but he preferred doing his business in town. By this time I knew my competitor would reach town so I ate dinner early and took chances on his still being in the dining room when Reidy would drive in.
I'll see you after. I'll finish my cigar. "My competitor went in to dinner. About the time I knew he was getting along toward pie, I began to squirm. I lighted two or three matches and let them go out before I fired up my cigar. Still no Reidy had shown up. Pretty soon out came my competitor over into the park where I was.
Did ye iver have to wipe ye'er most intimate frinds off ye'er clothes, whin ye wint home at night? Where was he durin' th' war? he says. 'He was dhrivin' a grocery wagon f'r Philip Reidy, says I. 'An' what's he makin' th' roar about? says th' little man. 'He don't want anny wan to get onto him, says I. "O'Toole was gone be this time, an' th' little man laned over th' bar.
There were three prospective customers for us and we were both in the habit of going after the same people. Two of them were bankers, one of them was pretty long winded; the other was a retired grain dealer who lived about a mile out of town. He was the man I really wished to go after. His name was Reidy and he was quite an old gentleman, always looking for a little inside on everything.
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