Some of us do pester the life out of people--don't know when to stop.

Now, when I see a man don't want my book, or when I see a town ain't ready for it, I drop books and go off, and leave them alone.

I could have stayed down there at the hotel and bothered the landlord into taking my book.

He'd have too it, because everybody that sees this book, and understands it, does take it; but I said, 'Why bullyrag the life out of the poor man when there's a missionary sale going on in town, and he don't want a book, and I do want to see the sale?
I am interested in missions." "It's a great field," said the minister, with a sigh of relief; for, as the literary head of Kilo, he was always the first and most strongly contested goal of the book agents.

The subscription list that did not bear his name at the head bore few others, and he appreciated the self denial of Eliph' Hewlitt in passing such a good opportunity to talk business.
"Are you deeply interested in the field ?" he inquired graciously.
"Well, you se," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "I was cast away on one of those desert islands myself once, and I know what those poor heathen must suffer for lack of churches and civilization, and good books to read.