[From the classified ads.]
Saleslady, attractive, energetic, ambitious hustler. Selling
experience essential but not necessary. Fred'k H. Bartlett & Co.
Her attractiveness, perchance, is also essential but not necessary.
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We see by the lith'ry notes that Vance Thompson has published another
book. Probably we told you about the farmer in Queechee at whose house
Vance boarded one summer. "He told me he was going to do a lot of
writing," said the h. h. s. of t. to us, "and got me to hitch up and
drive over to Pittsfield and buy him a quart bottle of ink. And dinged
if he didn't give me the bottle, unopened, when he went back to town in
the fall."
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