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for if he answers `` No '' I ought to turn about and leave him , so I casually remark that it is a good day , or a stormy day , and he says `` Yes , '' as if he had heard that before . I take a roundabout way of getting to my business , and all the time he would be very glad if I was in Halifax . I may interest him in my goods before I get through , but if he could have had his way he would have omitted the interview until a better time for him . But there are men on the road who drum a man if they reach the town at midnight , and as he sticks his head out of his bedroom window , inform him they are giving an extra 2 1/2 on `` J. I. C. '' curry-combs and ask him how he wants his shipped . Henley can do this . The boys on the road know that he carries a Waterbury watch in each pocket , and expects to sell 1,000 bills in 1,000 minutes . I appreciate such a man as Whipper .