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THE YANKEE IN MAINE STREET.


/" calculate | couldn't drive trade with you
to-day" said true specimen of the Yankee ped
ler, he stood at the door of merchant in Maine
street. t a1.t


6 calculate you calculate about right, for you
cannot" was the sneering reply. s41..


Wal guess you needn't get huffy about
it. Now here's dozen real genuine razor strops,
worth two dollars and half--ycu may have 'em
for two dollars"


g tell you don't want any of your trash so
you had better be going.


" Wal now, declare! I'll bet you five dollars
if you made me an offer for them are strops, we'll
have trade yet" ..g.r


J" Done ~ replied the merchant, placing the
money in the hands of bystander. The Yam
kee deposited the like sum when the merchant
offered him pcayune for the strops. a
t" They're yourn " said the Yankee, as he
quietly fob'd the stakes. But, /" he added, with
great apparent honesty. 81 calculate jokes
joke, and if you don't want them strops Ill trade
back"


The merchants. countenance frightened -
Youa not sobada chap, after all here are your
strops so give me the money"


"There it is" said the Yankee, as he received
the strops and passed over the picayune. g.
trades trade-and now you're wide awake, in
airnest, guess the next time you trade with that
are pic, you'll do better than buy razor strops."


And away walked the pedder with his strops
and wager, amid the shouts of the laughing
crowd-Si. Louis .4riel.