THE CAST-IRON CANVASSER by BANJO PATERSON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this hilarious short story from Down Under a company which employs door-to-door book salesmen finds itself in serious trouble when , at the end of a long and successful sales push, the salesmen beging quitting dbecause the people are frankly tired of them and have vowed to kill them on sight in some cases. The company hires a "Genius" who invents a salesman made of cast -iron, equipped with a taped sales pitch and a punishing right hand who can handle just about anything thrown at him and turns him loose ion the quiet community of Ninemile.

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0:55.8	Terms and Conditions apply. Hiring Indeed is all you need. Welcome back everyone to one 1001 classic short stories and tales.
1:33.3	This is your host, John Haggardorn.
1:36.3	Have any of you ever had to sell door-to-door?
1:39.2	Well, when the territory gets overwork, people can kind of turn on you.
1:44.0	And it was no different 150 years ago in the Australian Outback when book canvassers
1:48.9	just didn't know when to quit.
1:51.0	This is a story by one of my very favorite authors, Banjo Patterson.
1:54.8	This one's called the Cast Iron Canvasser.
1:57.7	Hope you enjoy it.
1:59.4	The firm of Sloper and Dodge, publishers and printers,
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