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There were some other ex-lumberjacks trying to sell in Boston too, so Sawyer finally bought some towels himself and told the manager he was going to deliver them personally. He took them down to the wharf and kicked them into the harbor but they were made a hero of him for making the first sale!

Another time he made a sale by pretending to be deaf and dumb, the prospect buying out of a desire for the novelty of buying from a mute. Sawyer says he tried talking every way he knew how and got nowhere, so he decided to try selling without talking!

When he was in a lumber camp in Canada, he wanted to get transferred to civilization on account of educating his little girl. So he wrote Mr. Brown and told him among other things that his "little girl hasn't anything to play with up here but a double bitted axe and some frozen horse turds."

Discussing various places he had been, he came to Scranton and said the Casey Hotel was the only good thing about it. He said definitely that he "wouldn't take Scranton for a six hole s-house."

Some country men were discussing how they had made their money and one old boy told how he hadn't any money but he wanted to tell them about a friend who lost everything he had at 60 and started in walking around sheep pastures ^[[with a basket]] picking up the wool the sheep rubbed off. And he worked at the job for 10 years, and "at the end of those 10 years," the old boy said, "do you know how much money he had?" They guessed all sorts of amounts up to $20,000. "Well" said

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