Excerpt from Hind-Sights or Looking Backward at Swindles The first business transaction that I can remember was the shipment of a fat calf by my own father. With two children in the family for every cow that calf could not be fattened with out sacrifice. The price of a fat calf would not go far in the wants of a modern family of our proportion, but to us at that time it seemed like affluence. We had the joy of anticipation to the fullest extent, but the realization never materialized. After long and patient waiting the ...
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Excerpt from Hind-Sights or Looking Backward at Swindles The first business transaction that I can remember was the shipment of a fat calf by my own father. With two children in the family for every cow that calf could not be fattened with out sacrifice. The price of a fat calf would not go far in the wants of a modern family of our proportion, but to us at that time it seemed like affluence. We had the joy of anticipation to the fullest extent, but the realization never materialized. After long and patient waiting the return came with the information that the calf did not bring enough to pay charges, but under the circumstances no bill was sent for the difference. I believe that the Publisher's Desk was conceived in that experience. Any way the incident has always been a. Vivid recollection; and it has served as an inspiration to defend shippers' interests whenever it is possible to do so through The Rural new-yorker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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