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When I
used to protest at this extravagance, "My dear Loudon,"
Pinkerton would cry, "you don't seem to catch on to
business principles! The prime cost of the spirit is
literally nothing. I couldn't find a cheaper
advertisement if I tried." Against the side-post of the
cabinet there leaned a gaudy umbrella, preserved there
as a relic. It appears that when Pinkerton was about
to place Thirteen Star upon the market, the rainy
season was at hand. He lay dark, almost in penury,
awaiting the first shower, at which, as upon a signal,
the main thoroughfares became dotted with his agents,
vendors of advertisements; and the whole world of San
Francisco, from the businessman fleeing for the ferry-
boat, to the lady waiting at the corner for her car,
sheltered itself under umbrellas with this strange
device: ARE YOU, WET? TRY THIRTEEN STAR. "It was a
mammoth boom," said Pinkerton, with a sigh of delighted
recollection. "there wasn't another umbrella to be
seen. I stood at this window, Loudon, feasting my
eyes; and I declare, I felt like Vanderbilt.


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