Show CIGAR p 0 queer of in that Is 1 in u c americans are apt io think they f sn K 1 belong to the oaly enterprising nation in th orid cam t rw skir lately from europe but I 1 hp little holland recently which roe that Uusi is business all tho world over J was walk 0 0 in on of ohp principal if rotterdam Kotter dam smoking a when 1 I vs by a well c arc c kl s who biad cacir 15 hib hand he plopped 1 me indin goad english asked yie fur ajiba and was nebout passing an when he said isee that ou are a cigar donld ayon mind belling aae where bought it and you pid d for it somewhat surprised ait the request I 1 told him that I 1 biad ia a lare shop in hodr street and I 1 had paid 10 cents cents american lacney font the reason parked be said is that they do not deal hon estly foreigners hero you sauld have a better cigar for that money if you wish I 1 can shot aou the place where I 1 get my cigars and where you can get twice as good 0 a cigar for the o annie ce 85 are i to lr v a supply of u cigars tor a few days at ecat and as 11 had nothing else too I 1 agreed ango saith him he led alio way through quaint and crooked streets and over many camus to p tiny tobacco shop in a narrow out of the way street TG entered the shop and my new found friend had a brief 1 conversation with the woman heined the in the production product ton of i bobof cigar from a shelf near by cigar gently out of my hand bluffed at it and then with a i gesture of disgust threw it oui of he then took a cigar from the box and offered it to me saying that it would not cost me anything chilo 1 atvas smoking this in a tentative way he had another conversation in dutch with the shopkeeper and then having apparently arrived a some compromise die told me with a ht in that she bad agrees to let me have the whole box of fifty for 4 gliders guiders about and seemed very much pained when I 1 told hi id X did not care for so 1 many as I 1 had to pass the english custom housa in a aay 0 two I 1 finally bought half the box and de parted I 1 was standing m front of the statue of erasmus 1 ing oae ottay newly acquired cigars when I 1 was approached by a respect re able looking man who had an un lighted cigar in his hand and who politely aked me for a when hs got his light he asked me where J had bought my cigar and diat had paid for it it dawned upon ma then s t that in this country of the slow dutch I 1 had run up against a form of enter prise that would do credit to baffer street ui our own good town 0 itaw york ana the humor of the situation eo overcame me that I 1 laughed then v and there th man with the cigar I 1 explained to his evident disgust how I had been already taken in and f herout away fier that I 1 have got a better cigar for ahe 1 money I 1 paid during my stay in Korter dam r was tackled several throes bj these ropers in and hugely enjoyed 1 telling aesa of the manner ni which I 1 bought my sigars always a made 1 a point of letting them light their cigars first they air seemed to have opinion of cigars t hadj fought 11 yos sun |