[CHAPTER XVI.]

Selling Bibles—Selling Books—What Was Said—Working the Customers—Curiosity—Public Meetings and Library Clubs.

[CHAPTER XVII.]

Adding to Bank Account—Looked Better, Felt Better and Was Better—Selling Encyclopedias—Complete Canvass—Tricky and Persistent—Advertising Schemes—Tricks of the Present Day—Disguises—How Different Business Men Were Worked—Strategy.

[CHAPTER XVIII.]

Rebuffs and Insults—The Lawyer, the Doctor and the Coon—Avoiding a License—Working the City Marshal—Jokes with the Milliner—Banking Twelve Thousand Dollars.

[CHAPTER XIX.]

The Real Estate Fake—Booming a Town—Making a Fortune—Tricks of Other People—All This World Is a Fake and Every Person in It a Fakir—The Politician and the Widow—A Diamond Ring for Two Cents.

[CHAPTER XX.]

Married and Settled Down—Retired and Happy—A Dip in the Lake—The World Is Round and Wide—Farewell.