Show WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE disgusted drummer was willing to accept joking offer if the tha law had allowed it A traveling salesman for a gansevoort street wholesale grocery firm recently back from a trip through the rough lands of eastern pennsylvania tells this possibly true tale one day on my last trip trip I 1 had bad a six mile ride to make to the county seat and tho small village ili n which I 1 was had bad only one horse that I 1 could hire and no other form ot of conveyance I 1 may say that a friend had landed me in the town that morning from his car and I 1 had sold goods enough to pay the expenses of 0 the trip well I 1 got away on the sorriest specimen of a horse I 1 ever straddled and I 1 was to send him back by mall carrier though not as aa a parcel post package it took me two hours hour to cover the distance I 1 was sorry enough I 1 walked and as I 1 passed the county jail on my old bag of bones a face grinned at me from between the bars of a small square window I 1 was too sore to smile but I 1 nodded to the grin and the prisoner called to me say mister he be said howd you like to trade that critter for 30 days in jail just then I 1 would have been glad enough to have traded but the law let me and I 1 rode on now new york sun |