Show algerian bargaining americans who travel la in eastern lands are amused as well as aggravated by the business methods which prevail there A recent traveler in algiers concluded to buy a mule and finelly found one for sale he went to the owner with an interpreter ter preter and a dialogue then ensued ss as follows follo wg I 1 the interpreter with a yell 1 I will give you ten en dollars for that mule the arab ten dollars murder thief brigand the interpreter 1 I will make it eleven dollars do you hear bear you scoundrel I 1 offer you eleven dollars tor for your mule which will die in about a week you are a robber and a tajet to take that much but I 1 am a generous man and I 1 serve a great man so I 1 offer eliven eleven dollars you scum ot of africa then they both yelled and shook their flats fiats at each other and to th tb american it looked as a if they were going for fan each other hammer and tongs the row they made was terrible but no one seemed to notice it finally a bargain was struck and then they felt fell neach others necks and embraced and the american got his mule for or eleven dollars |