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Sitting at the breakfast table of the hotel next morning a gentleman opposite looked up pleasantly and asked:

"Are you selling goods, sir?"

"Yes, sir."

"What line?"

"Guns and sporting goods."

"Yes? I'm a little in that line myself." And he handed me his card.

HOPSBY, COCKLEY & CO.,

20 Warren Street,

New York City.

"My nam