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Show ZDfUUtl Jliitts. "Fiue, Jilump ducks!" Is a groti market cry ; but what if tiio plump-iiess plump-iiess vaublies at the first l-sitli of a furk or skewet A joullerer In Binuingliani. wii-i had been in ti e habit of otTeri'i,; -line, plump ducks" at a ctuple of sln'Slnm apiee-, lia live ti imluced t cunf. that he r l-aralns would not " i- d the ttsti to will h wu have referred. On the contrary, 'liey were little better than skin and lione, their I lump appearance beiug entirely due to a fraudulent practice know n among tho initiate-! as "blowing." By way of excuse, H was pleaded Hut thu defendant was a poor, unlettered un-lettered widow, who didn't know the law; tlmt ducks when "blown" weie no heavier tlian when they arc-not arc-not blown, so that Die purchaser was at nllevc-uls not defrauded In the wight, and. lastly, lhat '-bfow-ing" ducks wi-s.i very oi I and aln v ery common practice. The m.igi-trate m.igi-trate appears to have been lnrhiiwl to exelniin wit'i theymiiig .'rlmai of Deiinnirk. --Aye, ma'aiue, it W common." A to the practice leing old, he seems eh arly to have twn of opinion that it was quite old enough, since he Indicted a fine of ten shillings and costs. Ijjnikm .cics. |