Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1897 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a Dandy.

The champion knife swapper lives in Gainesville, Ohio He Is a little boy—ti e son of a preacher—and this is his record, as give® 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 jackknlves, and 65 cents in money, besides other smaller trinkets too numerous to mention." WANTED— FAITHFUL MEN OR ■women to travel for res onsible e tabliebed house in Indiana. Sal ary.* 780 andexpv m-es. Poßi ionno manent. itef erence. Inclose self-addressed stamped envelope 'II e National. Siar Insurance Bldg., Chicago We are please i to note that Jno. Kimble has opened agon. r„l merciiandi/.m store iu B 1 -ckf id 'i>e p ope in that o-< i w 1 find John the right man m ihu rig t glace, and him « gi>u arous support.