Show WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE disgusted drummer was willing to accept joking awer if the law had allowed it A traveling salesman for a gansevoort street wholesale grocery firm recently lack back from ft a trip through the rough lands of eastern pennsylvania tells this possibly true tale one day on nay my last trip I 1 had a six mile ride to lo make to the county seat and the small village in which I 1 wt bad only one horse that I 1 co could uld hire and no other form of conveyance I 1 may maj say that a friend had landed me in the town that morning from his car and I 1 had sold goods enough to pay the expenses of the trip well I 1 got away on the sorriest specimen of a horse I 1 ever straddled and I 1 was to send him back by mall mail carrier though not as a parcel post package it took me two hours to cover the distance 1 I was waa sorry enough 1 I walked and as I 1 passed tho the county jail on my old eld bag of bones bonea a face grinned at me from between the bars ot a small square window I 1 was too sore bore to smile but I 1 nodded to the grin and the tha prisoner called to me say mister he said howd you like to trade that critter for 30 days in jall jail just then I 1 would have been glad enough to have traded but the law let me and I 1 rode on now new york sun |