" And it
was to this neat application of the local climate that
he owed, not only much of the sale of Thirteen Star,
but the whole business of his advertising agency.
The large desk (to resume our survey of the office)
stood about the middle, knee-deep in stacks of hand-
bills and posters of "Why Drink French Brandy?" and
"The Advertiser's Vade-Mecum." It was flanked upon the
one hand by two female type-writers, who rested not
between the hours of nine and four, and upon the other
by a model of the agricultural machine. The walls,
where they were not broken by telephone-boxes and a
couple of photographs--one representing the wreck of
the JAMES L. MOODY on a bold and broken coast, the
other the Saturday tug alive with amateur fishers--
almost disappeared under oil-paintings gaudily framed.
Many of these were relics of the Latin Quarter, and I
must do Pinkerton the justice to say that none of them
were bad, and some had remarkable merit. They went off
slowly, but for handsome figures; and their places were
progressively supplied with the work of local artists.
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