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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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I
went
down
the
path
with
him
and
began
to
unhitch
his
horse.
"Let
me,
let
me,"
he
said
eagerly.
Then
he
shook
hands,
paused
a
moment
awkwardly
as
if
about
to
say
something,
then
sprang
into
his
buggy
without
saying
it.
When
he
had
taken
up
his
reins
he
remarked:
"Say!
but
you'd
make
an
agent!
You'd
hypnotise
'em."
I
recognised
it
as
the
greatest
compliment
he
could
pay
me:
the
craft
compliment.
Then
he
drove
off,
but
pulled
up
before
he
had
gone
five
yards.
He
turned
in
his
seat,
one
hand
on
the
back
of
it,
his
whip
raised.
"Say!"
he
shouted,
and
when
I
walked
up
he
looked
at
me
with
fine
embarrassment.
"Mister,
perhaps
you'd
accept
one
of
these
sets
from
Dixon
free
gratis,
for
nothing."
"I
understand,"
I
said,
"but
you
know
I'm
giving
the
books
to
you--and
I
couldn't
take
them
back
again."
"Well,"
he
said,
"you're
a
good
one,
anyhow.
Good-bye
again,"
and
then,
suddenly,
business
naturally
coming
uppermost,
he
remarked
with
great
enthusiasm:
"You've
given
me
a
new
idea.
Say,
I'll
sell
'em."
"Carry
them
carefully,
man,"
I
called
after
him;
"they
are
precious."
So
I
went
back
to
my
work,
thinking
how
many
fine
people
there
are
in
this
world--if
you
scratch
'em
deep
enough.
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