group. They had it all arranged on the lines most likely to be
effective.

In one group there were all the bankers, Mullins and Duff and Pupkin
(with the cameo pin), and about four others. They had their
photographs taken at Ed Moore's studio, taken in a line with a
background of icebergs--a winter scene--and a pretty penetrating
crowd they looked, I can tell you. After all, you know, if you get a
crowd of representative bank men together in any financial deal,
you've got a pretty considerable leverage right away.

In the second group were the lawyers, Nivens and Macartney and the
rest--about as level-headed a lot as you'd see anywhere. Get the
lawyers of a town with you on a thing like this and you'll find
you've got a sort of brain power with you that you'd never get
without them.

Then there were the business men--there was a solid crowd for
you,--Harrison, the harness maker, and Glover, the hardware man, and
all that gang, not talkers, perhaps, but solid men who can tell you
to a nicety how many cents there are in a dollar. It's all right to
talk about education and that sort of thing, but if you want driving
power and efficiency, get business men. They're seeing it every day
in the city, and it's just the same in Mariposa. Why, in the big
concerns in the city, if they found out a man was educated, they
wouldn't have him,--wouldn't keep him there a minute. That's why the
business men have to conceal it so much.

Then in the other teams there were the doctors and the newspaper men
and the professional men like Judge Pepperleigh and Yodel the