Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a Dandy.

The champion knife swapper lives In Gainesville, Ohio He Is a little boy—the son of a preacher—and this Is his record, as given by his father: “That boy, not many months since, worried me till I bought him a knife. Like a boy, he left it out one night and it got rusty. Then he lost Interest in it and began at once to swap It off. Well, the little rascal has naturally a knack for trading, and, sir, he took that rusty knife and with a little work on it and a good deal of talking he succeeded In exchanging it for two good knives. These knives in turn he traded for three knives, worked considerably on them, and got a cheap watch for the three. He kept trading till he had completed forty-seven different bargains, most of them in his favor. At the end of the forty-seventh trade he owned a shotgun, a hound puppy, two jackknives, and 65 cents in money, besides other smaller trinkets too numerous to mention.”