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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:47:03 -0400, William December Starr wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > "John F. Eldredge"  said:   
   >   
   >> When I was a teenager, I worked as a paperboy for a couple of years,   
   >> selling _Grit_ newspapers.  This was a nationally-published paper, and   
   >> one of its unusual features was that, rather than subscribing to it,   
   >> you would pay the paperboy in cash each week. So, I handled a lot of   
   >> coins.  I bought a harmonica at a music store, and paid for it entirely   
   >> in coins.  When I had counted out most of the price in coin, the store   
   >> owner said, "That's enough", so I got an unexpected discount.   
   >   
   > Wow.  I remember that ads for selling _Grit_ -- not ads for the product,   
   > but ads soliciting people (kids) to sell it -- were close to ubiquitous   
   > in comic books in the 1960s, but this is the first time in my life that   
   > I've encountered anyone who actually _did_ it.   
   >   
   > -- wds   
      
   This was in the early 1970s, and I sold about 150 copies a week. I was   
   too young to get a regular job, and it meant that I had some spending   
   money of my own, since I didn't get an allowance.  It also meant that I   
   was getting plenty of exercise, since I was doing the route entirely on   
   foot.   
      
   --   
   John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com   
   "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot   
   drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
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