Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — Tricks of the Trade. [ARTICLE]

Tricks of the Trade.

The stranger carelessly tucked away in his vest pocket the change of a $5 note that a Brooklyn bartender handed to him after serving a warm drink. There was nothing strange in that, but subsequently the bartender said to the bystanders: I have made a customerof that man. How ? Why, as easy as rolling off a log. I have given him a 50-cent piece with a hole in it. He’ll come in to-morrow when he’s going by, politely call for a drink, inform me in the kindest manner that I have unintentionally nut in on him a 50-cent piece with a hole in it. To all of which I will reply good-naturedly that I am really sorry, and ask the man to take a drink with me. We are both feeling quite satisfied with each other, and there is no refusing. Reminiscences follow. The man spends three or four half-dollars with me, and then leaves, saying that lam a jolly good fellow. I have bought all the perforated coins that I can lay my hands on. Business has increased 30 per cent, this week.”— New York Sun.