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Show EASY E5UYING AT AUCTION. Says the Youtn oi xperlence, Who Has Learned the Trick of It. "You never bought anything at auction?" auc-tion?" exclaimed the experienced youth. "Best place in tho world to furnigh a studio, once you get them trained. I trained them with my table. That is, they found out they couldn't monkey with me. It was like this: You seo, I thought I would buy a table llrst, a center table, and drape a couch and a few other things around It as I pot them. I picked out tho ta-blo ta-blo I warned at the auction room. " 'How much are you willing to pay Tor it?' they asked. "I looked It over. " 'About six dollars, I answered, brlelly. "I mado a mistake when 1 said, 'About.' That's what cost me three weeks getting the table. "I went around tho next day. lhoy put up my table. I bid to six and stopped. Somebody elso ran it up to seven and a half. I went home and concluded I would have to pick out another table, since that ono was gone. "Tho Kt.xt week I went back for the other table. I hadn't been thore ten minutes when they put up the same table. I was a little surprised, but as I still wanted It, I bid light along till I got to my pi Ice, six dollars, then I quit. It was knocked down to tome-body tome-body else "Well, I went back tho third week to get. a table. As soon as thov saw mo they put up my table. I hid on it. Somebody ran it up to live. 'Five and a half,' I said, and they knocked -It down to mo. Got it. you seo, at hall a dollar loss than I had started out to pay, and it served them right. "After that they treated me square. You see that brabs lamp? A beauty Isn't It? Worth all of six dollars if it Is worth a cent. Gnens how much I paid for it? One dollar!" |