Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1915 — WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE [ARTICLE]

WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE

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▲ traveling salesman for a Gansevoort street wholesale grocery firm, recently back from a trip through the rough lands of eastern Pennsylvania, tells this possibly true tale: “One day on my last trip I had a six-mile ride to make to the county seat, and the small village in which I was had only one horse that I could hire and no other form of conveyance. I may say that a friend had landed me in the town that morning from his car and I had sold goods enough to pay the expenses of the trip. “Well, I got away on the sorriest specimen of a horse I ever straddled, and I was to send him back by mail carrier, though not as parcel post package. It took me two hours to cover the distance —I was sorry enough that I hadn't walked —and as I passed the county jail on my old bag of bones a face grinned at me from between tl)e bars of a small square window. I was too sore to smile, but 1 nodded to the grin, and the prisoner called to me: “‘Say, mister,’ he said, Trow'd you like to trade the critter for 30 days in jail?* “Just then I would have been glad enough to have traded, but the law wouldn’t let me, and I rode on.”— New York Sun.