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Show A Trick of Trade. I'opys tells in his diary that In tho reign of King Charles II. a customer bargaining with a London merchant for clarot hired a confederate to "thunder "thun-der (which ho hnd tho ar' of doing upon a deal board) and to rain and hall thnt Is, make thn noise of so as to. give thotrt a pretense of undervaluing under-valuing their merchant's wines, by saying this thunder would spoil and turn them; which was so reasonable to the the merchant that ho did abato two pistolls per tun for tho wlno In belief of that." |