Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-06-14
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The keeper of a country inn, situated sons
dozen miles from The city, an honest, ignorant,
unsophislica,ed farmer, taking i, IN his head
that his establishment wanted new sign
which was very sensible conclusion in him,
lnasmuch as nought was 10 be seen on the old
sign creaking on its hinges it swung lazIIy
in the wind and not having the leas, vesilgs
of the original painting left on it-iook il into
his head 10 have new one painted, aud accor.
dingly, being in the good Quaker city, on busi-
ness, consulted the proprietor of one Of those
shops where house and sign painting and gIa-
zing' are done
WELL said he, 'how much are you going
10 charge me +! you know can't afford TO paw
100 much, cause lm not money bag, and
you city people can stick ii on sometimes
Ten dollars replied the palnrer Il could
paint you one for ten dollars, although it's too
little price for the quantity Of work"
Too iuIe" ejaculacted The inn keeper, too
lille for painting sign! By thunder, can't
afford TO pay any such price"
Why returned The artist, you can't get il
done any cheaper. Wha. do you expect you
will have 10 give.
Well. don't know replied The inn kee-
per. but guess So would be quite plenty.
TlNo uUHdIS. tSctdliNeu Tue dIuSt O0t
seeing what kind Of a customer he had TO deal
with, he resolved to make hum pay for his
stngness so after some demuring, The paint
er agreed as follows:
LII paint you sign for five dollars You
say you want white bear on it. Well, I'll
paint you the bear without chain, for The a.
mount you offer me-
%, hang The chain; don't care about hav-
ing it any how. Paint the bear without it, and
I'll give you five dollars.
The bargain was thus closed. In time the
sign was painted, delivered TO It's owner, and
hung up alofl in the place Of the old one, where
i, was the admiration of the family for whols
week alterward At length there was one eight
/ heavy storm Of thunder and lightning, accom-
panied with deluge of rain. Mex, morning
II cleared off, and the old man went or as
/ al 10 admire his new sign, when what was his
| aslonis hment to behold MOI vestIge OF the bear
| left This picture completely efaeed
! from both sides His first though, wa- that
some mischievous youngs,er of the neigh'Jur-
hood had scraped il of. bu, there was no evi.
dence of any scraping and the paint was gone
as smoothly as could be.
IN 90 10 town 10 day and see th9r painter.
said he 'he has cheated me-"
And so in double quick lime he was landed
in the painters shop
"What kind of sign was that YOU painted
me !"
| "A white bear"
! Il know it was, but there's not much white
bear now. It's clear gene. The boards's there
but there's moi mi.e of whIe bear lefl or
either side, How is this ~
oh! iIs Clear enough. Cheap goods are
never the oes, loId you I'd painl you bear
wilhou, the chain for five dollors. did so.-
How could you expect such wild animal as
that to remain without being chained I"
! The countryman could not exactly see into
this, concluded that /, was best 10 have the
chain painted in the picture, and thus insure
It's remaining. For an additional ten dollars
this was done, and the renewed picture did
not disappear after that. This puzzled The
counIryman more than ever. bu; be con. luded
the painter was right. The reader will, Of
course, have guessed that the frs, sign was
painted In water coors, and The last 10 oil
paint. The water colors disappeared, as
matter of course, after hard dreaching. The
counifyman generally gave people good price
after that.
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