| Show barter barte tha thata satisfied i all concerned in deal ri forty ort five years ago I 1 owned a lumber busI fiess i in a little country town in manitoba we were all desperately pera tely poor a 10 bill looked as large us a bed sheet onedas one day ft a farmer asked me to sell him on credit 10 worth of lumber explaining that ile he had sold some hogs to jo the butcher who could not pay him the iThe butcher would go good for the lumber bill he said I 1 explained pla ined to the farmer that I 1 would us soon pon trus Wilm as the butcher and told fifie ahlm to tb ret get the butcher who con firmed the farmers story 11 1 ask asked the butcher it if he sold meat to the grand central hotel where I 1 was boarding lie he said he be did and that they were owing him money I 1 told him to go to the hotel ara ani get me two 5 meal tickets on account of his meat bill which he did and I 1 furnished the farmer with the lumber f P I 1 so the hotel paid for foi its meat tha th butcher for the hogs bogs the farmer fa for the lumber oyid I 1 for my board without any money parsing W J palmer in wall street journal |
