3320.
 But I  know you are going to ask me why I  didn’t just cancel three or 
four papers at a time, or even ten all at once. But when the number got 
up to thirty-five, how do you tell that to your route manager?  He would
 have though I was crazy. And what would my father have thought about 
it?  
 3321.
 No, it was better to just go on with the route so long as I  was able 
to manage to pay the weekly bill.  It didn’t matter to me that I wasn’t 
making any money; that I  had to deliver the entire route for nothing.  
 3322.
 But then I  got to the  point where I  had forty extra papers a day, 
and if I  collected every house I was still five dollars short every 
week.  I  got to forty extra papers a day on April 15.
3323. I  remember the day very distinctly. I still remember that day because there was a sudden spell of very warm weather that lasted for a week.  It started on April 8th and by the 15th all the snow in the entire city was gone, even the huge piles that the city snow-plows create at the corners of the streets were gone.  




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