The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-30

i placed them astriGe of nv nose, 10 twist the
familiar things at which l look into an antique
picture which shall be in keeping with their own
venerable aspect
was the good womans face as she held them
with her crippled eyes.
Goodness! Did you ever! How could peo-
pie ever wear such things as these? hope you
don't expect to sell 'em z"
But thus happily were the resources of our
establishment vindicated; though really less
ready we than that other shop-keeper of these
parts, who laid wager he could fill any single
demand, and triamphantly produced a second
hand pulpit which was called for.
The country store-keeper is in some sort
public character. He finds himself used in a
dozen different ways-Gs banker, oracle, referee,
newspaper, directory, intelligence man, etc.
almost before he is aware. Gossip and small
talk he should retail with the same graceful
alacrity with which he dispenses maccabov and
peppermint drops. Thoroughly democratic as
an Institution, 1.-The store" recognizes no caste.
and It's door swings freely open to all who come,
whatever be their errands An inviting haunt
Tor all the idle ones among Us, its freside on
stormy or impracticable days draws together its
little circle, that Is ever shifting its character
and It's subjects as different persons come and go
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