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to be without one. lie will save money in the long
run by paying a little more for bi.s case in the be
ginning.
If the cigar trade increases to such proportions
that it requires one man to give his entire time and
attention to it get a good man who knows his busi
ness and the stock you e.xpect him to handle. A good
cigar salesman will do three times the business of a
poor one, and he can build up a trade that will be
valuable. Don't get it into your head that any man
who can talk the English language can sell cigars,
for it is easier to make a good bartender than it is
to develop a seller of cigars who knows his business.
It is to be assumed that is open to argument, but
that makes no difference, as a few e.xperiments will
soon prove who is right.
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