. The grafter. d havehad a drunken man on our hands to contendwith, and we immediately left at 3 : 40 toavoid subjecting ourselves to the humiliationof being found in company with a drunkenman. When we excused ourselves to leave, thePost Office Inspector grasped our hands ten-derly and said: *Gemen, some feed. Likeyer size; like yer eyes. Hie,—say, kin yuhgimme job spector for Real State ^ Yer sweetest Little Girls in Districtof Colmbia. We didnt require the services of any postoffice inspectors at the time, and, as we badehim good-bye, we extended to him a cordialinvitation to ca
. The grafter. d havehad a drunken man on our hands to contendwith, and we immediately left at 3 : 40 toavoid subjecting ourselves to the humiliationof being found in company with a drunkenman. When we excused ourselves to leave, thePost Office Inspector grasped our hands ten-derly and said: *Gemen, some feed. Likeyer size; like yer eyes. Hie,—say, kin yuhgimme job spector for Real State ^ Yer sweetest Little Girls in Districtof Colmbia. We didnt require the services of any postoffice inspectors at the time, and, as we badehim good-bye, we extended to him a cordialinvitation to call at the office any time he wasin town. But I dont suppose the gent re-members anything about the invitation. Hawkins had no particular object in gettingthe P. I. soused. He merely wanted to seeif a post office inspector was susceptible towhat, in a way, might be called bribery; or,if it would not come under that head, hewanted to prove to himself that hospitalityand benignance will sometimes win the esteeni. Yer sweetest Little Girls in District of Colmbia HAWKINS AND SIMPKINS 225 and change the attitude of those workingagainst one. Due solely to lack of advertising, the dailyreceipts of Hawkins were becoming smalleras time passed; so small that, after a fewweeks, Hawkins forgot the past, ignored thepresent, and began to devote his thoughts tosome original but illegitimate swindle for thefuture. He had thousands of letter headsbearing his name. They were practicallya work of art, and were printed on the best ofbond paper. One day he concocted a new idea, and headopted a new system. He knew he had analluring letter head and that mail-orderhouses, brewers, etc., would promptly fill, innearly every case, any order he would placewith them, and send bill therefor the first ofthe following month. A friend had one day given Hawkins a smalldirectory which was supposed, at time of issue,to contain the names of all the leading cigarmanufactories in the United States which em-ployed u
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