But
let me finish. These jugs I've said are being made in Canton, and you
can buy 'em for seven dollars and a half Mex. apiece, retail; and for
forty-two dollars Mex. per dozen wholesale, less five per cent, for
cash with order—packed— boxed—delivered free to rail or steamer."
"Is that really so?" I asked earnestly.
"Wal,"
he answered, "some people are difficult to convince. However, when you
get back to Hong Kong look me up at the hotel. We'll spend a week-end
at Canton together and you shall see where they make your
thousand-year-old jugs. . . ."
