Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-06-25 | Page 2 | Had to Admit "Drawbacks"

HAD TO ADMIT "DRAWBACKS" Doubtful, However. If Auctioneer's "Candor" Interfered With tha Salt of the Estate. A certain London auctioneer. In addition ad-dition to a tine personal appearance and splendid elocutionary tslonts. Is possessed of considerable cultuie and knowledge of human nature At a book sale this gentleman would read with exquisite taste passagea from the books he was selling, with brief biographies and criticisms oT their authors, reciting hexameters from Greek and Koman classics, and rendering passages from humorous writers with a tone and air so ludicrous lu-dicrous as to set the room In a roar of laughter. Thus he often won higher prices for books than those got at tha shops. An amusing example of his cleverness clever-ness In extolling nn estate is the language lan-guage with which he once closed a highly colored description of the prop, erty he wns selling Eor a few moments mo-ments he paused, nnd then said: "And now-, gentlemen, having given a truthful description of this magnificent magnifi-cent estate, candor compels me to admit ad-mit that It has two ih'u whacks -the lit-tor lit-tor of the rose leaves and I he noise of the night Ingiiles." .