Excerpt from A Drummer’s Experience
May place him in the class with the ostrich or pelican. I know of cases where they have swallowed three sandwiches, four doughnuts, two eggs and all the pie in sight, inside of five minutes, and had a ten cent cigar half smoked before the train started. As regards the sandwiches, I do not think they will hurt him, as there was not enough meat in them to bait a mouse trap. The bread used in these sandwich es has been passed on by the Medical Board, there are strict orders that none of the bread shall be less than five days old. As for the doughnuts, the only thing that will hurt you is the hole, the little ring around the the outside is harmless; it is made of water and some flour. The case the eggs came out of was marked Special. I do not know what that meant unless it was special for lunch counters, and as for pie, yes, all drum mers like pie, nice fresh apple pie, but not the cold storage variety. I like almost any kind of pie except the kind that has buttons, and hair pins for flavoring. A drummer’s life is like the month of April, when you have seven different kinds of weather in twenty four hours. Sometimes business is good; competition keeps his mouth shut; and the trains are on time; but at others the wind is always in your face when’you have to make a drive. Then the horses balk, or the auto sticks in the mud a half mile from town, just.
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