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Show WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE Disgusted Drummer Was Willing to Accept Joking Offer if the Law Had Allowed It. A traveling salesman for a Ganse-voort Ganse-voort street wholesale grocery firm, recently back from a trip through the rough lands of eastern Pennsylvania, tells this possibly true tale: "One day on my last trip I had a six-mile ride to make to the county seat, and the small village in which I was had only one horse that I could hire and no other form of conveyance. convey-ance. I may say that a friend had landed me in the town that morning from his nar and I had sold goods enough to pay the expenses of the trip. "Well, I got away or. the sorriest specimen of a horse I ever straddled, and I was to send him back by mail carrier, though not as a parcel post package. It took me two hours to cover the distance I was sorry enough I hadn't walked and as I passed the county jail on my old bag of bones a face grinned at me from between the bars of a small square window. I was too sore to smile, but I nodded to the grin, and the prisoner prison-er called to me: " 'Say, mister,' he said, 'how'd you like to trade that critter for 30 days in jail?' "Just then I would have been glad enough to have traded, but the law wouldn't let me, and I rode on." New York Sun. |