Poor country-boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling-trips to the Southern States.

"That's about as much as I make in a yearI mean, altogether," he said, quickly, lest the girls get an exaggerated notion of the peddling business.

It is true that a physician may become such a drug-peddling routinist, that sensible mothers see through him, and know enough to throw his trash out of the window as soon as he turns his back.

I would go away on a peddling tour and then come back as boarder.