Show recognized END WAS NEAR old man ready to give up when he ha could not bite what he thought was plug one day last month when trade wasi wa dull a grocery clerk procured a 0 mcca of sole leather from a shoemaker painted it black and laid it aside for autu future re use within a few days tin an old chap from back la in the country c nine came la in and inquired for a plug of chewing tobacco the piece of sole leather wan wa tied up paid for and the tha purchaser started for home at the end of th the 0 sixth day lie he returned looking downcast and dejected and walking into the store he be inquired of the clerk member that ter backer I 1 got here the other day yes well was that a new brand no same old brand regular plug ter backer was it yes well then its me its right here in my jaws sadly replied the man 1 I knowel i I 1 was gittin old but I 1 was allus ha handy ady in plug I 1 never seed it a plug afore this one that i 1 tear to pieces with one chaw I 1 sot my teeth on this one and bit and pulled and twisted like a dog at wroot a root aad ive kept hept a biting and pulling for six days and she am now the same as the day you sold her to me I 1 seems to be good plug remarked the clerk as he smelled of the counterfeit ashes all right its me chafa falling failing I 1 exclaimed the old man pass na me out some fine cut and ill go haloo and deed the farm to the boys and git ready tor the grave from an aged bostonians scrap book |