 And that despite protests to the contrary, most street peddlers just plain prefer street peddling. For years thereafter, Milton's whereabouts and whatabouts were rather a mystery to the townsfolk who had tracked his remarkable rise and apparent fall. Some said that he was off cooking up a new recipe of some kind. Others just said, oh, I heard that he had died and dismissed it at that. But now whenever you think of him, I hope you'll recall a middle-aged man with a pushcart.