"Say, I bet I had fourteen $2 gold watches, twenty
gold-rimmed spectacles that cost me 15 cents apiece, one
dozen books, tightly sealed in wrappers, that looked mighty
interesting to the jay who couldn't see into the books, and
yet who had to do it finally at $2 apiece, and, as a topper
of it all, my three-book monte game. Did you ever see the
game?
"I've got a line of wild west books about two inches
thick, each, and costing me 40 cents a volume. They've
got some great pictures on the cloth covers, and maybe
there's some hot stuff inside--I don't know. But here's my
unparalleled offer: I pick out my man and lay these three
volumes across his knees in the car seat and go after him
with some of the warmest kind of air about their interest,
the binding, and the illustrations.
"You pay me for the set," I explain, "but in doing it I
give you a chance to get the books for nothing and at the
same time double your investment.