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Excerpt from Recollections of an Old Cartman A New York cartman, above all others, should be an honest, intelligent and upright man - for he must necessarily be entrusted with untold wealth in one shape and another. I recollect having on my cart one afternoon property valued at half a million of dollars, be the same more or less. It consisted' of a collection of about thirty dingy-looking old oil paintings - said to be the grandest pro ductions of some of the se-called old masters. Inever once doubted the ge'nuineness of their antiquity; but, although I had plenty of money in 'my pocket at the time, I wish to have it distinctly understood that I did not purchase them at that price. Add right here permit me to remark - not under oath, how' ever - that I acquired a very high character for honesty and square dealing during the twenty years that I followed carting indeed so high that I have not yet, with all my sub sequent practice, become a very expert thief, which fact almost debars me from obtaining my rightful dues 111 this thieving and grab game age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.