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CHAPTER XX. 



A BEAUTIFUL NEW COACH. 



HAVE already mentioned the honesty of the 

 people in Flushing. Nothing is more pleasant 

 and satisfactory than to deal with persons on whom 

 one can rely ; to feel that one gets precisely what is 

 agreed upon can trust entirely to the word of the 

 seller. To be sure, they were now and then a little 

 too confiding. They had a way of supplying any 

 person in the village with whatever he wanted, and 

 charging it to me. If I objected, they answered 

 conclusively that he had given my name, and that 

 they were not accustomed, in the country, to doubt 

 every man s word who applied to them for a keg of 

 nails or a dozen boards ; and they explained that con 

 fidence was the foundation of business. Rather than 

 disturb this creditable, almost too creditable state 

 of affairs, I submitted, and paid for a good many ar 

 ticles that went to other people. I made a short at 

 tempt to enforce a rule that any applicant who gave 



