He Was Never Insulted
*• That man to whom you sent me insulted me, v said a youßg commercial traveller who had been otily a lew uonihs in the business, to his employer in London. " Insulted you ?" repeated the employer, w tk an expression of contempt sufficient to" 1 have made the novice sink i -to the floor. "Were you never insulted?" timidly enquired the }oiioa: man. %< Never, Sir— not even during 1 the period of my novitiate, which I passed through very rapidly- and I have been twenty years in th*. business." "That is very strange," said the novice sceptically. "Very strange, if you don't understand ii," ferociously observed the old commercial traveller. " 1 have been often badh\ abused. I have been ordered pcrc-iDtorily to leave the premises. 1 have been frequently knocked down** for staodina* on the order of my fiorug*, and several times I have been unceremoniously kicked downstairs : but," he continued, gazing- fiercely and triumphantly at the young- man, " I have never been insulted. Tbe moment a commercial traveller feels himself insulted he is no long-er fit for the business."
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 38, 11 September 1884, Page 3
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183He Was Never Insulted Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 38, 11 September 1884, Page 3
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