MEN OF MAINE 



and express company will be pressed into service 

 at once, and you may expect to receive any or all 

 of these articles by the next day at the furthest. 

 It has been a common saying amongst us, that if 

 Harry Furbish could not get what you wanted, 

 Charlie Barrett could make it. It is true, too, — 

 absolutely so. I have had the shattered cast-iron 

 legs of a sewing-machine repaired by these people 

 so that the places of fracture could not be seen, a 

 main spring supplied to a watch, and a new can- 

 vas cover, bound with leather, made for a trunk. 

 That these people are " cute " and " cunnin' " 

 in a " trade " goes without saying, being Yankees. 

 To them business is a game to be played for all 

 there is in it, and they strive to win as much for 

 the real pleasure of winning as from any motive 

 of gain. Sentiment has no standing at all here in 

 business, and a man will sell his home or his 

 occupation without hesitation. If he thinks he can 

 make a good trade, or with equal readiness will 

 buy out a business of which he at the time knows 

 nothing. Offer the blacksmith "a right smart 

 chance " at a watch, clock, and jewelry establish- 

 ment, and he will take it in a jiffy, and undoubt- 

 edly make a success of it. Deck Huntoon had a 

 fine horse on the island one summer which he 



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