Him an' me took to the book-agentin' biz the same day, we did.

I needed cash, like I always do, and he had literatoor in the family.

So we went an' did it.

We did it to Gallops Junction first, and after that Eliph' sowed literatoor pretty general all over Iowa, an' next I heard of him all over the United States.

Iowa is now a grand State, an as full of culture as a Swiss cheese is full of holes, an' I don't take all the credit for it; I give Eliph' his share.