Show WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE disgusted drummer was willing to accept joking offer if the law had allowed it A traveling salesman for a gansevoort street wholesale grocery firm recently back from a trip through tho the rough lands of eastern pennsylvania tells this possibly true tale one day on my last trip I 1 had a six mlle mile ride to make to the county seat and the small village in which I 1 aft sad ad only one horse that I 1 could hire and no other form of conveyance I 1 may say that a friend had landed me in the town that morning from his hia car and I 1 had sold goods enough to pay the expenses of 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 a parcel post package it took me two hours to cover the distance I 1 was sorry enough I 1 walked and as I 1 passed tho 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 hava been glad enough to have traded but the law let me and I 1 rode on new york sun |