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something for him, or of that derived kind in which the pro 

 ducer, now become more distinctly differentiated, carries his 

 product to the consumer, we are alike shown distribution in 

 its primitive form a direct transfer from the one who 

 makes to the one who uses. 



747. In the course of evolution the wholesale trader of 

 any kind has to be evolved from the retail trader; and, as 

 we see, the retail trader in his primitive form is one who sells 

 a thing he himself produces, whether he be maker of goods 

 or tiller of the soil. Of the Greeks we read: 



&quot;The countryman who carried his produce to the city, the artisan 

 who sold his work, and the woman who offered for sale her taenise and 

 chaplets, all belonged to the class of at&amp;gt;ro7r&&amp;gt;Xat.&quot; 



Our own early history variously illustrates this undeveloped 

 form of distribution: 



&quot; We may picture the medieval artisan to ourselves in so far as a 

 monev economy had come in as a man who had to spend much time 

 in trying to dispose of his wares. Hereward visited William s camp 

 as a potter, and many craftsmen must have been, to some extent, pedlars 

 or have visited fairs, in order that they might dispose of their goods.&quot; 



Moreover, besides distribution of articles by the artizan who 

 sometimes sold them at home and sometimes went about 

 selling them, there was a distribution of special skill by 

 migratory workmen. In continuance of the above descrip 

 tion, Cunningham and Me Arthur remark that &quot; in other 

 cases we may think of them as men who had to wander about 

 in search of custom, as travelling tailors did in the early 

 part of the present century,&quot; or as do sempstresses, who are 

 often employed in households at the present time. And 

 referring to this system in early days, Rogers tells us that 

 besides a superior class of migratory carpenters there were 

 migratory tilers, slaters, and masons. Even now in Scotland 

 travelling bands of masons are employed in the remoter 

 parts. Hugh Miller belonged to one of them. 



Indeed this simple kind of distribution, alike of articles 

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