Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1876 — IN the Wrong Store. [ARTICLE]

IN the Wrong Store.

“ W I’JCK going to be married [’bont|*eek, stranger,” said a countryman, withaslouched hat on one side of his htiad’/ M Me entered * jewtel«Fs-od >Market street last week, leading by the hand a bashfiil-looking girl with a red face and white teeth, “ ’nd I want a set of. jewelry to match that ’ere ring on hfir finger.” ■ ■- .sf--' :;t T< Something pretty nice, I prestrme?” said tlje jeweler, examining the ring. ”” ’ “ Bdst you’ve got, I reckon,” was the reply? . ;) Sonqe twenty different sets wepe shown Them,-varying in price from thirty to ninety dollars, Md finally they decided to take one, the price of which was sixty dollar*. Z’ . iUji... ‘‘ D® her up in a jag,” skid the countryman, pressing himself up closely agnjpst thegifl. . -a • The sbopkeeperartistically wrapped up the,, jewelry afid handed it to the be-" trothed. . ><iL • ■ f ui’'’h" “ There’s, your spondqllx,” said the purchjiser, as he ran his hands deep down into his pockets and threw two big handfuls of - hftd not beenas&i'tiiej pricO of his goods he looked a little enrespecially when the countryman “ IPs’a!| stranger, for she and I counter) it over more’n twenty times ’fore we left home.” X ... •: . “ How mpch. is. there ?’ ’ inqr ired the jeweler, liaying counted twenty-five cents all in cappers. “Ninety-nine cents, I reckon‘ i|ot a -cent short.” I 1 ’ Ninety-nine cental Why, that set of jewelry is sixty dollars; we don t sell brass here,” totelaifited tttr jeweler, Ids face becoming 'scariet, anti, taking the set from thq gijrl, he repl iced ftii tiife sh6#-easc. > . DP.l£utW|O'.whißtled the countryratyn,. lookingSdflT astonishment, first at the mati and and theu a boy out herptold me and niy gal that we could get anything in this store for ninety-nine cents,” and they went dut to -look for the boy.— Danburj/itewt. * . • ' . .. i ...