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The Map Agent and the Highwaymen

A traveling map salesman turns an attempted highway robbery into a successful sales pitch to the very bandits who tried to rob him.

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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Page 1

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It is told of a western map agent, that on a recent trip he was attacked by highway robbers, who demanded his money. As he was too prudent to carry money in the country, they failed to make a haul out of their victim.

"But," said the agent, "I have some splendid maps of the country along with me, which I should like to show you"; and in a twinkling he was off his horse, had a map stuck upon a pole, and explained it so effectually that he sold each of the bandits a map, pocketed the money, and resumed his journey.

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