The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-12-11
The Bargain.

What have you got there husband?
said Mrs. CORTLAND to her thrifty and care
,ul spouse, as the latter paused in the
loor to give some direction to couple
Of porters who had just set something
on the pavement in front of the house.
Just wait moment and I'll tell you. |
Here, Henry! John, bring it in here, and
the porters entered with a beautiful sofa
nearly new.
.Whv. that is a beauty husband! How
kind Won are.
chats the hest part of il. Tt is splen.
did barcain. It did'ntcost less than a hun
dred dollars Now what do YOU think T
oove i,q'
S;xtv dollars7'
.Guess AGAIN
.Fiftv?'
,Gneso auain'
.Forty.6ye?'
No Trv arain.'
But what did YOU give for it, dear?'
WHY only twenty dolars?'
We'll now. that is bargain
.Ain II thouchq' Ittakes me to get the
lbino cbeap,' continued the prudent Mr..
CouTtlanJ chucklinq with delight
WHY how in the world did it go off so
cheap?i
i managed that. It amt every one that
understands how to do the thing
But how did YOU manage i: dearr l
should like to know.
.Vhv. YOU see there was a great MANY
other things there, and among the rest
some dirty CARPETS. Before the sale. I pull
ed over these carpets and threw them upon
the sofa, good deal of tho dust fell from
them, and made the sofa look fifty percent
worse than it really was. When the sale
was commenced, there happened to be bur
few persons there, and l asked the auction
eer to sell the sofa first, as / wanted to go
and would bid for it if it were sold then
Few persons bid freely at the opening 0
the sale
whats bid for the sofa?' He began.
Tll give YOU fifteen dollars for it, said I
its not worth more than that for its dread
full abused
Fifteen dollars! fifteen dollars! only e.
teen dollars for this beautiful sofar he wen
on. and the man next to me bid seventee
| dollars. I let the auctioneer crv the las
bid for few minutes, until saw he wa
! likely to knock it down.
Twenty dollars" said l, land that's a
. much as I'll go for it,
5 The other bidder was deceived by tn
as to the real value of the sofa, for it disfs
ured by the dust and dirt, and consequent
o the sofa was knocded down to me-
$ That was admirably done, indeed" sal
Mrs. CORTLAND; with bland smile OF sa
e isfaction at having obtained the ele9al
e piece offurniture at SO cheap rate. Ar
d its SO near match, too, tor the sofa IN OIL
IS front parlor.
This scene occurred at the residence OF
+, merchant in this city, who was beginning
g count his fifty thousand Let US look
the other side OF the picture.
it On TIE day previous 70 this sale: Wi
oW lady with one daughter beautiful al
70 interesting giTi OF about seventeen, we
It seated on a sofa IN neatly furnished pa
f. Tor IN hudson street Inc mother held
n ner mana SINAI piece OF paper on VIM
ner eyes were 4u'enSeiy nAed' put II cou
Oe readlly perceived 'nat she saw not I
characters thas were Written upon IT,
IS 'What 70 De ooHe mas at lengtn ask
A. the daughter
h indeed my enid cannot tell. The
es is fifty dollars aud has been DUE you knc
TOR several days, have not got five dolla
h. and your bill for teaching the Miss. Lei
ards cannot be collected for two weeks, a
then it will not amount to this sum.
be- Can't we sell something, more, m