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Show "WAY DOWN EAST" I HERE CENTLE ART OF SWAPPING IS AT ITS DEST. In Woodhull, New York State, Cltl zens Stand Ready to Trade Anything Any-thing at Any Time Some Sample Doings. Woodhull, up In Steiihon county New York, las claim to two dlstlnc tlons, according to a country doctor who wna relating some of his oxporl enees to several of his old classmate at a class reunion the other night II boasts of being tho largest village In the Rtatc far removed from any steam or trolley road, and It Is the greatest "swapping" center In tho state, If not In tho wholo country. Its annual horse traders' convention, which Is held Ir tho fall, Is Its pildc. "I shall never forget my first oven-lug oven-lug In the village," said the doctor. "A friendly nntlvo hnd volunteered to show mo 'round a bit,' and ho led mo first to tho nightly camping ground of the village gossips, the veranda of the I.nntz House. " There's a crowd for e!' wills pered my guide. 'They Jest sef 'round iloln nawthln' 'cept smoko, chaw and swap lies. That's Hank Dump they're llstenln' to naow. He's the greatest swapper In Woodhull chiefly boss svrnpper, but lio'll swap an) thing ho's got. Coma on, an' I'll Interditce ye. Might bb well git to knowln' tho folks naow as any time. " 'Mr. Hump, Hhako hands with tho new doc' " 'Hnow bo ye. Doc? (Had to know yo. Gain' to locate here, bo yo? There's n big ride 'mound Woodhull fer doctors. I was Jest tellln' the boys haow cheap I got that 'ere olo gray maro over there. I traded her to Hill, here, the same night 1 got her I was 'tcndln' nn auction sale daown to Addison a couple ' year ago. Thoy sold n buggy an' a lot o' truck. When Andy (that's tho auctioneer) brung out that olo mare somedody bids 25 cents. Another bids 30. Then 1 sings out "35 centB," an' Andy knocks nor daown to me. Shu's been a high hooker In her day, an' she's n good more yet Hill knnows thnt.' "'Yes,' said Hill, tnklng up tho swapping yarn, 'I ketched up to him comln' up from Addison, an' boo he was leadln' somcthln', What j on got there?" I sings out. A trader," says Hank. "Hot nn thing ye'll swap?" 1 got a watch," says I. "Here, take n look at It an' put In yer pocket till wo git to tho bridge." Well, when wo gits hi tho brldgo." Hank says, "haow'll yo tj-ndoT" I ought to have a dollar or two to boot," says I. Can't do It," says he. "'Well, I considered Into It n mlntito I seen she had n good halter on nn' a new hnmo Btrap hitched to It an' I needed n now hnmo strap so I says, "Well, I'll trado yer oven." It's u go," saj-B lie, and ho wo swapped " 'What kind of a watch did yo get, lfnnk?' somcono asked. ' " 'Well, It wns a pretty good watch to look at,' replied Hunk, 'but It wouldn't go. Ono night I camo daown hero nn' heard' n feller braggln' that ho'd swap nnythlug at any time er place He was ono o' thorn Ilrndys from Hardscrabble. I ast him what tlmo o' day It was, nn boo ho had a watch Just like mine, only It was goln'. "'"Hnow'll yo swan watches?" Bays I. Even," says he, so wo swapped. '"Yes, an' I'll tell yo what luo watch cost yo got o' mo." volunteered Illll. 'My boy glvo two hens for it, no 1 give him tho olo mare." |