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he said, "there hasn't been a barrel of them all come within five 

 inches of being full." I put my hand down and took out seven 

 apples, one of them slid back into the barrel, and I laid them on 

 the box, and he said, "Here, you might as well have your whole' 

 handful, and I will give you the biggest apple there is on top 

 of the barrel," and he did, and there are the seven apples on 

 that plate there. Those are the Tolman Sweets that were sent 

 to Boston as an extra lot of apples. He sold several barrels of 

 those apples to a man for $1.50 a barrel without looking at them. 

 The man sent them back to him and he was there while I was 

 there, and he says, "You can sell those for anything you are a 

 mind to, and you needn't pay me the difference between what I 

 get and what I paid for them, because I would not like to have it 

 said that I came down here and bought some apples and I sent 

 them back and took the money you received from them." And 

 he was offering them for a dollar a barrel. 



A letter was received from the man in Vermont : "Dear Sir : 

 There seems to be a big difference between what you told me 

 you would pay for my apples and the check you sent me, and if 

 you don't send me the difference between what you told me you 

 would pay me and what you sent me there will be trouble." 

 The gentleman in Boston says, "That is one of the things that 

 we commission men have to deal with." There are two sides 

 to the apple question. There are two sides to everything, and 

 I wish that I dared tell friend Kinney who the man was, but I 

 never give away such things. 



Mr. Kinney. I don't think Maine has gotten up to that point 

 where they can have their apples sold as many times as we Ver- 

 mont people can. 



Mr. Hixon. I haven't got to the Maine people yet. Yester- 

 day some one sent me out to ride to see your beautiful city, and 

 I want to say right here — I wish the mayor was here, I wish I 

 could have said something to him last night after his talk — you 

 have got a pretty city, you took me to a beautiful place out here 

 below, one of the finest places, natural places — I am a believer 

 in nature and not too much of the ordinary fixing up that we 

 get — and that place of Mr. Gardiner's is a magnificent natural 

 place, and you have got a magnificent little city here, magnificent 

 views and scenery, and old-fashioned colonial houses, and new 

 fashioned houses, and every one of them well kept, and your 



