Show was almost too smart edward atkinson of boston the noted economist was talking about tricksters they who descend to trickery he said have small minds always that s why they don t succeed they dupe others now and then but they dupe themselves hem selves just as often that man was perhaps a typical trickster who once bought here in twenty seven loads of flour from the railroad he had a heavy plank on hia wagon and he kept the plank there during the weighing of each load then when the flour wa all weighed and he was setting off for home he said in great excitement friend who was with him say bothin dill I 1 shaved that feller I 1 never deducted the plank but once keep steady say bothin and bill indeed had a hard time to convince the foolish old fellow that he had bought from the railroad thirty pounds of plank twenty six times |