{"product_id":"2940015198935","title":"A Yankee in the Far East","description":"A Yankee in the Far East by George Hoyt Allen, author of “It Tickled Him”; with Illustrations by H. S. Weller; Copyright, 1915; 2nd Edition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCH1. War Hell and Bull Fights\u003cbr\u003eCH2. “Missouri” and His False Teeth\u003cbr\u003eCH3. Wong Lee--The Human Bellows\u003cbr\u003eCH4. Hawaii--And the Fisherman Who’d Sign the Pledge\u003cbr\u003eCH5. The Umpire Who Got a Job\u003cbr\u003eCH6. The Japs’ Five-Story Skyscraper and a Basement\u003cbr\u003eCH7. Japanese Girls in American Costumes--They Mar the Landscape\u003cbr\u003eCH8. Ceremonious Grandmother--”Missouri” a Heavenly Twin\u003cbr\u003eCH9. Ushi, the Rikisha Man\u003cbr\u003eCH10. Missionaries, Tracts, and a Job Worth While\u003cbr\u003eCH11. Yamamoto and High Cost of Living\u003cbr\u003eCH12. The Soldier Said Something in Chinese\u003cbr\u003eCH13. Ten Thousand Tons on a Wheelbarrow and the Ananias Club\u003cbr\u003eCH14. “Missouri” Meets a Missionary\u003cbr\u003eCH15. A Sto-O-Rm at Sea\u003cbr\u003eCH16. The Islands “Discovered” by Dewey\u003cbr\u003eCH17. White Filipinos, Aguinaldo, and the Busy Moth\u003cbr\u003eCH18. Singapore--The Humorist’s Close Call\u003cbr\u003eCH19. The Hindu Guide a Saint Would Be\u003cbr\u003eCH20. Penang--A Bird, the Female of Its Species, and the Mangosteen\u003cbr\u003eCH21. Burma and Buddha\u003cbr\u003eCH22. Baptists and Buddhism\u003cbr\u003eCH23. The Rangoon Business Man Who Drove His Sermon Home\u003cbr\u003eCH24. The Glass of Ice Water That Jarred Rangoon\u003cbr\u003eCH25. The Calcutta Sacred Bull and His Twisted Tail\u003cbr\u003eCH26. The Guide Who Wouldn’t Sit in “Master’s” Presence\u003cbr\u003eCH27. Royalty Vs. “Two Clucks and a Grunt”\u003cbr\u003eCH28. One Wink, Sixteen Cents, and Royalty\u003cbr\u003eCH29. The Englishman and Mark Twain’s Joke, “That’s How They Wash in India”\u003cbr\u003eCH30. English as “She Is Spoke” in India\u003cbr\u003eCH31. A Five Days’ Sail and a Measly Poem\u003cbr\u003eCH32. Beating the Game with One Shirt\u003cbr\u003eCH33. Through Hell Gate Steerage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are so many ways suggested these days by the various periodicals on how to make money at home, it would seem that all ingenuity in that direction must be exhausted; but how to make money abroad seems to me to be almost a virgin field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew pastures have always interested me, and if I can add to the sum of human happiness by a wise suggestion, and point the way to satisfy an almost universal longing to see the world,--for instance, if I can show how one can make a luxurious world tour and come out ahead of the game while doing it,--I shall be only too glad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s no new trick to _beat_ one’s way around the world with the hardships attending such an enterprise, but to tell how to do it in ease and luxury surely ought to earn me the gratitude of my fellow-men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGet a bunch of pencils and some pads of paper and announce to a waiting editorial world that you are about to take a trip around the globe, and that you propose to write some letters of travel and syndicate them. That, for a consideration, you’ll let some good papers print ‘em.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon’t be modest about naming a good round price for the consideration of letting your papers in. Because you’ll need the money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll editors you’ll find are hankering for letters of travel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetters of travel are a novelty. The first editor you call on early in the morning, say about ten o’clock (that’s early enough to get to work in this new enterprise I’m tipping you off to--gone is grinding toil and worry--let others moil), this first editor of some big daily (big dailies are the easiest)--don’t be timid--brace right up to him, and give him your proposition in a nutshell--easy-like--right off the bat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt will be a pleasure to you to watch him brighten up at your offer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManaging editors of big dailies are hard-worked men.\u003cbr\u003e(continued - see Author's Preface)","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146403332336,"sku":"2940015198935","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015198935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}