The Postmaster - 1912 Author:Joseph C. Lincoln General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VIII ARMENIANS AND INJUNS; LIKEWISE BY-PRODUCTS YOU can imagine that Jim Henry and Mary had a good deal of fun over my experience with Lot and his tribe. They joked me about it consider'ble. But I didn't mind. My foot was all right again, or nearly so, and the extension to the store had been finished and was workin' out fine. We moved the mail room way back and that give us lots of room on the main floor, and Mary had a nice clean place, with plenty of air and light, new sortin' table, new desks, and all that. As for business, we done more that summer than we had previous and it kept up surprisin' well through the winter. I was happy and satisfied and Jacobs seemed to be. But he wa'n't. It took a whole lot to satisfy him and, by the time another spring reached us and the cottages begun to open I could see that he was get- tin' fidgety. One mornin' he come back from a cruise amongst the cottagers -- he always handled their trade himself -- and I could see that he was about ready to bile over. " Well," says I, " what's weighin' on your mind now? Or is it your stomach? I'm willin' to bet that I'm two pound heftier than I was afore I ate them hot biscuits at our boardin' house this mornin'; and you got away with three more'n I did. Has your ballast shifted, or what ? " He shook his head. " Skipper," says he, " we're ruined by foreign cheap labor." " You're right," says I. "I heard that that Dutch cook used to work in a cement factory, and them biscuits prove it." " Nothin' doin'," he says. " My noon lunch for two years was ' Draw one with a plate ...« less