Walk an' talk, that's what they did, an' it's what anybody would do in similar circumstances.

I guess fiery furnaces has that effect all the world over, but it took W.
P.Mills to see it with his mind's eye, an' put it into verses.
"So, when Sammy gently intimated to me that it was his pa's book we was to canvass, the job looked different.

I might shy at an encyclopedia, or at a life of Stephen A.Douglas, but to handle a moral volume like the 'Wage of Sin' sort of appealed to the financial morality of my conscience.

So I asked Sammy what the gentlemanly canvassers would get out of it.
"'Pa had a lot of faith in that lyric poem,' says Sammy to me, 'an' no one had a better right to, for he wrote it himself, but the publishing game was dull an' depressed about the time he got ready to issue it forth, an' he was necessitated to compensate the cost of printing it himself.

And,' he says, 'the rush an' hurry of the public to buy that book is such it reminds me of the eagerness of a kid to get spanked.