CHAPTER V.Sammy Mills.
"There ought to be a license agin book agents," said Pap Briggs spitefully, when Eliph' Hewlitt had hurried away.
"It wouldn't harm that feller," said Wilkins.

"He's a red hot one at book-agenting, he is, an' he'd find out some way to git round it.

I hear lot of book agents that come round this way tell of him.

He's got a record of sellin' more copies of that encyclopedia book of his than any one man ever sold of any one book, an' he's a sort of hero of the book-agenting business.

It makes me proud to call to remembrance that him an' me was kids together down at Franklin, years ago.