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and I had never worked for anybody or had business experience of my own. 
Nevertheless my success was such as to prove a surprise to other San Diego 
confectioners who had said I would ‘‘go broke’’ before many months. The 
venture was highly satisfactory in every way. Prospering from the beginning, 
and getting in the lead, I was able to retire at the end of eighteen years. On 
Fig. 16. ALBERT MILLS INGERSOLL. 
selling out, a larger price was obtained for the goodwill, and right to continue 
business under my name, than for the entire stock of goods and fixtures com- 
bined. 
Recalling some of my boyhood experiences to mind, I distinetly remember 
that the first eggs I took were robin’s. Imagining eggs of such a beautiful 
blue would be more palatable than plain colored hen’s eggs, and wishing some 
