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He would n't smoke and would n't drink anything but lemonade . Deliver me from the merchant who is on the water wagon or wo n't even take a cigar ! He 's hard to get next to . After we finished our lemonade , I brought out my family photographs and kept him listening to me tell how bright my children were -- until noon . `` When we finished luncheon I suggested that we go up and do our business as I wanted to leave town as soon as I could . Then he told me he felt he ought to look at another line before buying and that he had promised another man he would look at his line . `` Had I ` bucked ' on that proposition it would have knocked me out , so I said : ` To be sure you should .