Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1897 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a Dandy.

The champion knife swapper Ilves I: Jainesville, Ohio He Is a little boytte son of a preacher—and this Is hl record, as given by his father: “Tha boy, not many months since, worried me till I bought him a knife. Like u boy, he left it out one night and It go: rusty. Then he lost interest In It am: began at once to swap it off. Well, th< little rascal has naturally a knack foi trading, and, sir, be took that rust;, 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 tom he traded for thre< knives, worked considerably on them and got a cheap watch for the three He kept trading tin he had completed forty-seven different bargains, most oi them In his favor, At the end of th*-forty-seventh trade he Owned & shot gun, a hound puppy, two jadkknivei* and 65 cents in money, besides othei smaller trinkets too numerous to men tferr ! . Queen no’s Domstn, The Queen is the mo t powerful vldow on the globe. She rules 11,5,057 square m le. of tha earth’s territory ana 316,725,867 of its populating

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