Now I get it a pound at a time, and the pound is all cut up in these pieces and wrapped in cellophane. And look at these little bags of cut tobacco. Look at them. Used to buy this stuff 100 pounds at a time, too, in batches of 10-pound pails. Now I get these things.
Martin pokes through a desk-like affair at the front of the store.
He finds a box. Out pops cuff links, a bone for a woman's stiff collar, a bit of this, that and a deputy sheriff's star. Yes, Martin is the law as well as a storekeeper out Millburn way. From 1860 to 1904, the Millburn general store was also the postoffice. In those days, folks simply told the postmaster when they wanted to stop a magazine or newspaper subscription.