Show rale bale live Yankee iun what deou you charge for board asked a tall tail green mountain customer stomer cn as he walked up to the bar of a second rate hotel in new york what deou you ask a week for board and lodging five dollars said mine host five dollars too much but I 1 spose allow for the time 1 am ab absent sent from dinner and supper certainly thirty seven and a half cents each Y here the conversation ended and the yankee up his quarters for two weeks during this time he lodged and breakfasted at the hotel but did not take either dinner or supper saying his business detained him in another portion of the town at the expiration of the two weeks he again walked up to the bar and said ta spose we settle that im gwine in a few minutes the landlord handed banded him his bill two weeks board at five dollars ter dollars 11 here stranger ja said the yankee this is is wrong youve made a mistake youve not deducted the tims tim s I 1 was absent from dinner and supper 14 days two meals per day 26 meals at 37 cents each 10 dollars 50 cents isyou if you faint got the 50 cents jint at hand ism im not at all ill aist take a drink for it and the balance in cigars |