Show franks trade with a It yankee aukee the last time I 1 was in st lows lou says dan marble I 1 was sitting in the store of old frank kc coun country try fashion on the top of the counter legs IV pendant when a real nutmeg came booming along and in he comes with a heap of bundles in his fists frank was down on pedlars ped lars and yankees in pc particular ular but he was always set for a joke and loved equal to an israelite to drive a sharp bargain the yankee nodded to me and I 1 nodded towards frank i intimating niti mating there was his victim awin frank was b busy us smoking mol king and 11 figuring gim ng over his ledger is haord du observes the pedlar cc no no no go jo on frank peevishly responded but that gasn wasn me the yankees religion he wanted to I 1 trade rade and was bound to do it squire I 1 drive a trade or bothin with yeou folks tu day 11 1 I calculate you calculate about right for you cannot was the sneering reply wall I 1 guess yeou get huffy abbout it kaow heres a dozen jenuine razor strops teu dollars and a half yeou may hev em cm for teu ten dollars 1 I tell you I 1 dont want any of your trash so you had be better ater be going says frank sho how yeou I 1 talk alk ill bet yeou five dollars if yeou make me an offer for them ere strops well have a trade yet done says gays frank putting a V into my hand the yankee deposited a like sum when frank offered ered hun a picayune for the th strops tr ourn said the th yankee ame as he quietly fobbed bobbed the arkes stakes but he added with great apparent honesty 1 I calculate a jokes a joke and if you dont want them strops ill trade back franks countenance brightened there it ls is said the yankee as he be received the strops and I 1 pissed passed over th the e picayune i A trades a trade and kaow youre yo u ire wide awake in airiest I 1 guess g bess uess the next time you trade with that ere pie pic do a little better than to buy razor strops 11 away walked the fhe pedlar with his hia strops end nd his hia wager amli amid the he shouts of a half hag dozen fellows who in copyright secured Secure ti |