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Show How Ho AVorked tho Innocents. The experienced train boy was apparently ap-parently giving iustructious'to a youth whom he was breaking in as an assistant. assist-ant. Iu tho seat directly in -front of thu two sat Mr. nnd Mrs. Harrison Kor-punk, Kor-punk, of Georgeson's Cross Heads, It was their llrst trip away from homo. "You can genor'ly" toll by their looks," said thu peanut boy.oraeularly, "whether It's goin' to pay to try to come any llttlo gumo over 'cm or not. ,Seu that chap half way between hero an' the other und of tho car? Well, you could hell that man a dime novel for a dollar anil n half nnd rope him In nn thu dnllar-ln-tlie-box trick just in easy us look at him. You'd bo wastlu' )our time, though, to try and play any tricks ou such peoplo as these two iu Trout of us. They're old travelers. ,No usu to show them anything but what's bang up genuine an' cheap. If you've got anything that's frusli nn' wuth tho money, thorn folks is thu kind of customers to lake 'em to tho llrst thing. Snidu goods won't go down with such customurs as thotn, 1 tell you. Well. I must work tho train now. lie-member lie-member what I've told you, "That boy Is a mighty good judge of human uaturo, Jose, isn't hu?" said Harrison to his wife, after tho experienced experi-enced peanut boy had gone into tho forward car to get Ids basket. "Ho thought he wasn't talking loud onough for us to huar.but I've got pretty sharp ears. I heard ovory blnuiud word hu nald. Well, It's a fact, .lose." he added, ad-ded, "it wouldn't he much, usu to try any of his llttlo tricks ou mo. I've gut my oyo teeth all cut. Hero hu como-i. If ho s got nnythiug worth buying he'll-coma he'll-coma straight to us. You seo if ho doesn't." , And beforo the peanut boy was dono with Mr. Harrison Kurpunk ho hud sold him half a dozen prize packages, fivo boxes of lastyuar's maple caramels, a dozdii sour oinugos, three 25-cnnt books for half a dollar each, unloaded his ontlro stock of moldy tigs on him! nnd cleaned him nut of n $'-' bill on an innocent llttlo trick with a pill-box nud a gold coin. "Jose," said Harrison, after ho had sat looking nut of tho car window for about live miles, "diiriiud if I don't begin to think ho said all that to the othor boy on purpose for mo to hear III" |