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Show He Took Brooms. Two old fellows In New Hampshire wero the sharpest things in the way of bargaining. Cy Pettlnglll made broom" for a living and Ezra Hosklns kept a store. One day Cy came In with a load of brooms and the dickering began. Cy was a man who could see a bargain bar-gain through a six-inch plank on a dark night, and Ezra could hear a dollar bill rattle In a bag of feathers a mile off. W(cll, they began, and their conversation conversa-tion was something like this: "Ezra. I want to sell you these brooms." "All right, Cy, I'll take them." Cy said: "I don't want any stor? bargains, I want cash for them," They talked and gadded a while, and then Ezra said: "I tell you what I'll do, Cy. I'll give you half cash and half trade." "That'll be all right. Ezra." Alter he had put the brooms in the store, Ezra said: "Here's your money. Cy, now what do you want in trade?" Cy looked around for a spell, cocked his eye up to the celling, stuck his cud in his cheek, and said: "Well, If it is all the same for you Ezra, I II take brooms." Columbia Record. |