It was not long before Frank came across a person who had purchased a health, and a cattle and poultry book from Grant Deems.
“I wish I had seen your books first,” said this person. “They are assuredly superior.”
“Will you rent me these books for two or three days?” asked our hero.
“What do you want to do with them?”
“I want to show folks the difference between the two lines of books.”
“In that case I’ll let you take the books around for nothing.”
“Thank you very much,” said Frank, and placed the rival’s volumes in a paper.
This was a wise move on our hero’s part, for before long he ran across some folks who wanted to know just what the difference between the two sets of books was.
“I will show you,” said he, and brought out the other volumes. “In the first place, if you will look at the copyright notices, you will see that these books are much older than ours. In the second place, you will see that the printing is poorer and that the paper is of inferior quality. In the third place, our books contain many more illustrations, and in the fourth place, our covers are much more durable.”
“What you say is true,” said the man, who was listening, and he at once gave Frank an order for the health book, and sent him to a brother who wanted a book about cattle and poultry.