“I want two hundred small circulars printed,” said Frank. “Can you get them out at once?”
“Yes.”
“How much will they be?”
“That depends on what you want printed on them.”
“I want this,” returned our hero, and taking a sheet of paper, he wrote the following:
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
It has come to my knowledge that a certain rival book agent is visiting the people of this vicinity and representing that the books I sell are not the best of their class on the market. Kindly hold your orders until you see my books and I will prove to you that the firm I represent, the Philip Vincent Company, publish the best books of their class in the world.
FRANK HARDY.
“I’ll get you out two hundred of those for a dollar and a half, or three hundred for two dollars,” said Barry Leeds.
“Very well, I’ll take the three hundred,” answered our hero. “Perhaps I’ll be called on to use some of them somewhere else.”