Letter No. 10From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Commercial House, Jeffersonville, Indiana.
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Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.
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Chicago, March 1, 189—
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Dear Pierrepont: When I saw you start off yesterday I was just a little uneasy; for you looked so blamed important and chesty that I am inclined to think you will tell the first customer who says he doesn’t like our sausage that he knows what he can do about it. Repartee makes reading lively, but business dull. And what the house needs is more orders.
Sausage is the one subject of all others that a fellow in the packing business ought to treat solemnly. Half the people in the w
