Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — This Boy Is a Dandy. [ARTICLE]

This Boy Is a Dandy.

The champion knife swapper Ilves In Gainerrille, Ohio He Is a little boy—tlie son of a preacher—and this le 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 knlvee in turn he traded for three knives, worked considerably on them, end 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 naeoey, besides other smaller trinkets toe numerous to men i .