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ReviewsWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.Write review Common terms and phrasesafternoon ain't Amigon brand Amigon prunes asked Pete automobiles baking powder Barlow began better Bill Billy breakfast Brownsville bully buttermilk cards Cartright cents Chow-Sam cigar circus Circus Boy codfish coffee continued Pete country store cried Dodd dollars Edna farm feel feller fellow fiddle fight Frank Gotch galoot Garrells glad hand grocery guess hand hard How's hustle Jake Jim Brown Jim Gardner Joe Denton keep laughed lick liver Loire Valley look machine matter mighty mind month morning mother never Pete Crowther Pete's pretty rassle rassler road salesman salesmanship Santa Clara Valley Saturday night sell shook sight Song stand-in Stevens street stuff Sunday Sure talk tell there's thing Thompson tobacco Tommy town-meeting travelling village violin wagon what's wife window References from web pagesAMONG THE AUTHORS Popular passagesHe said that one should train himself into a firm belief in his capacity to perform his task. Let him cultivate a mental attitude of superiority. When he approaches a man look him squarely in the eye with full confidence in his ability to sell him goods, and let there be a constant mental suggestion emanating from him to that effect." "In other words," said Pete, "get stuck on yourself. Page 69 I wouldn't wonder if that Chink used considerable coffee," mused he. " I guess I'll go over and chin him awhile." He pushed his way through the diningroom into the kitchen. Song was still seated upon the soap-box paring potatoes for dinner. " Good-morning," saluted Pete. " Good-morning." " Where's the boss ?" " Boss he gone away, Page 74 Plitty good coffee," asserted Song, uneasily. "Why, that no coffee at all!" shouted Pete in disgust. "That nothing but peas and chicory! You savvy, Song? No coffee! Nix coffee! That all peas and chicory !" "All peas and chickly," echoed Song, vaguely. "Sure! no coffee at all!" "Make plitty good coffee," insisted Song, again. "Why, if you like that stuff, I sell you all same twelve cents. Page 77 Billy must have whaled him," commented Pete. " I don't know about that, but really, Pete, Billy gets into a fight nearly every day. I have talked and talked with him about it, but it doesn't seem to do any good." " Don't fret about it, Jen. Boys will fight, but I guess I can tone it down some." " That isn't all, Pete. This morning Billy threw a stone through that big dining-room window of Graves's house. Mr. Graves said that we must pay for it, and I suppose we must. He said that Billy was a terror... Page 145 Some one tapped Pete upon the shoulder. He turned and confronted Billy Dawson, a fellow-drummer. "Hello, Billy! When did you blow in?" "About an hour ago. Did you get a room?" "Sure. Number 26, facing the park. How are you fixed?" "I'm all right — up on the next floor. Come on in to supper, Pete." "Wait till I wash up and get a shine. Page 103 ... suddenly leap up and run out, as if I had been at home, forgetting where I was, and what my condition was ; but when I was without, and saw nothing but wilderness and woods, and a company of barbarous... Page 160 ... trip. It was a June evening. Pete owned the house in which he lived. He knew that his wife and boy were watching for him and that supper would be awaiting him. " Home," said a Roman law writer, " is the place from which, when a man departs, he becomes a wanderer, and to which, when he returns, he ceases to wander. Page 144 We must leave him here for a while, which we can do with full assurance that he will not idle any during our absence. Among his associates he was said to be somewhat cautious, suspicious, and rather indifferent to truth; but no one had ever accused him of being lazy. II — PSYCHOLOGY The East-bound passenger train was rumbling its way over the prairie toward the city of Omaha. Page 65 Restaurant." He still worked early and late, as he had been accustomed to do in China; but here it was different. He was working for himself now, and he was slowly gathering a surplus. There was a profit. After deducting all of his expenses, including rent, food, fuel, and supplies of all kinds, there was a net profit of about two and one half cents per meal, which, at thirty-six meals per day, gave him ninety cents clear. Page 63 ... and eight fives — and arrange them in a roll, mixing the twos and fives at irregular intervals, but placing two fives upon the outside next to a couple of twos. Then place a rubber band around it, and notice the sensation of well-being that suffuses the mind when one holds the roll in his hand. Possibly it may not affect every one in this way, but that is how it made Song feel. Page 64 Other editions
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