Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a D andy.

The champion knife swapper lives In Gainesville, Ohio Ho Is a llttje boy—the son of a preacher-and this is his record, as given by his father: “That boy, not many months glnaa worried me till I bought him a knife. Uke 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 oft Well, the little rascal has naturally a knack tor trading, and, sir, he took that rusty knife and with a little work oh It and a good deal of talking he succeeded in exchanging it for |wo good taUvet. Those knives lg turn he traded for three knives, worked considerably on them, gid got a cheap watch for the three. e kept trading till be had Completed forty-seven different barrains, motoof them in his favor. At the efid « tht forty-seventh trade ho owned a Shot* gun, a hound puppy, two jaekknlve*. and 85 cents in money, besides other smaller trinkets too nw swops to meo* *toWr < a > -