HE WAS NEVER INSULTED.
" That man to whom you insulted me," said a young commercial traveller who had been only a few months in the busiuess, to his employer in London. "Insulted you?" repeated the em. ployer, with an gxpresaion of con**"*' sufficient to have made the novice sink into the floor.
'' Were you never insulted V timidly enquired the young man.
" Never, Sir,—not even during the period of my novitiate, which I passed through very rapidly—and I have been twenty years in the business."
" That is very strange," said the novice sceptically,
" Very strange, if you don't understand it," ferociously observed the old commercial traveller. " I have been often abused. I have been ordered premptotily to leave the premises, I have been often knocked down for standing on the order of my goin j&d several times I have been imcerflPTniously kicked downstairs; but,"ho continued, gazing fiercely and triumphantly at the young man, "Ihave never been insulted. The moment a commercial traveller feels himself insulted he is no longer fit for the business."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 19 September 1884, Page 2
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173HE WAS NEVER INSULTED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 19 September 1884, Page 2
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