Zunaed ebooks

He made no bones about it, but sent for the irons and handed them
over to me to pay for when I could. So men are made. Commercial
character, as it is rated on 'change, I had none before that; but
I had after. How could I disappoint a man like that?
[Illustration: "I went to hear Horace Greeley address an open-air
meeting."]
The confidence of the community I had not lost through my too
successful trip as a drummer, at all events. Propositions came
speedily to me to "travel in" pianos and pumps for local concerns.
It never rains but it pours. An old schoolmate who had been ordained
a clergyman wrote to me from Denmark to find him a charge among
the Danish settlements out West. But neither pumps, pianos, nor
parsons had power to swerve me from my chosen course. With them
went bosses and orders; with the flat-iron cherished independence.
When I had sold out Jamestown, I made a bee-line for Pittsburg, a
city that had taken my fancy because of its brisk business ways.
They were brisk indeed. Grant's second campaign for the Presidency
was in full swing.


Pages:
107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131