Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a Dandy.

The champion knife swapper lives In Gainesville, Ohjo He is a little boythe son of a prsaoher—and this Is bit record, as glvOß by his father: "That boy, not many mouths linos, worried me tul I bought him a knife. Like it boy, toft It out on# night and It got rusty. Then he lost interest In It and began at one# to swap It oft. Well, tIK little rascal has naturally a knack sot trading, and, sir, bo took that rusty knife and with a little work on It and a good deal Of talking he succeeded it, exchanging It for two good knives These knlveo in torn he traded for thre< knives, worked considerably on them and got a cheap watch for the three He kept trading till he had gompierted forty-eevep different bargains, most of tWb la his faTOc. At ths end of the forty-seventh trade he owned a shotgun, a hound poppy, two jackkniveu, and 6B cents in money, besides other smaller trinkets too numerous to men-