A Gaar-Scott salesman speaks

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November/December 1951
Mr. E. C. Foreman 
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Years ago I was in a town and held up for train service. The operator found I knew telegraphy and also that I was peddling threshing machinery. He said, "Mike, a foreign fellow, up the railroad was in here sending a telegram for repairs for a very old make of engine. A reply came just a few minutes ago, "no repairs available." I walked up to see Mike who was feeding his chickens. "Pop is feeding Rover to the chickens. Rover got struck and killed by a train. We ran him through the meat chopper for the chickens." From all appearances I had a faint idea part of him might find the table. Well, some two weeks later a rebuilt tractor engine found a new home for cash on delivery at railroad station.

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Once I heard of a sawmill operator through a school boy whom I took in for a ride to his school. I walked down to his mill through the mud. He said, "seemingly mud doesn't interfere with you." I said, "You are interested in a thresher, I learn." He informed me that he was and that a very dignified agent a few days ago drove up in a livery rig and wanted him to come up to the road as he did not want to go through the mud down to his mill. He told the fellow to wait an hour and he would see him at mill men's shack. He waited but while there was so afraid of getting his clothes soiled off of his muddy and greasy clothes that he told him he was not interested in his line.

He said, "I see you do not carry your vest and coat pockets full of pearls and pencils as the fellow who saw me the other day." I said, "One pencil will do the job if you are ready to buy." He said, "Leave me a catalog and see me Saturday evening at home." I went and the result was a new thresher. I stayed all night and his wife said, "You and Will can talk all night of your experiences with machinery and old steam engines. Now since he has bought he will neglect his Sunday School lesson for tomorrow."

Men's minds it seems of new inventions we can't keep;
They crown the old out and pile them in a heap.

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