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`` Well , Mawruss , it was the same trouble with him like with some other people , I know , '' Abe replied significantly . `` He was a good manufacturer but a poor salesman ; and you know as well as I do , Mawruss , any fool could make up an article , Mawruss , but it takes a feller with judgment to sell it . '' `` Did the sponger send up them doctors yet ? '' said Morris with a far-away look in his bloodshot eyes , as he entered his place of business at half past seven one morning in March . `` Doctors ? '' Abe repeated . `` What are you talking about -- doctors ? ''