Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-02-22

five for a lot of skins worth three dol.
lars? You wait now,' and he took
bit of chalk and made some figures on
thelid of a black desk. remember
his figures to this day. young man,
said Mr.. Astor, you say two dollars
and eighty cents, and you promise me
your wort If honor that you never
tells nobody that John Jacob Astor
was fool enough to trust young man
"a boy, though he has two babies
with twenty thousand dollars worth
of goods
That speech of the old mans made
me mad. Il don't want your goods,
Mr.. Astor,' I said. Il don't want any.
body to sell me goods as a favor
what you show your temper be.
cause I put five cents more on the
skins! Here my boy, you just show
me, that the son is as honest as the
ladder, and l tell you something's
your old man, long before you were
born, trust me once in London with
ESQ. You 90 now; time for my sup
per-
You will pack the goods in good
hogsheads
yes, yes everything You ask me
to pay freight on them next and guar
antee profits suppose. Now go away;
that is enough trading for to-day. You
have your bill tomorrow. Anything
more you want!'
Yes, Mr.. Aston. nineteen thousand
seven hundred dollars worth of notes
payable is almost too much for q young
house like mine to put out at one
time
what, you don't want to give notes?
Young man! You must think John
Jacob Astor crazy
Il want to pay the money for my
purchase. Sir. and must have a dis
count for cash.
The cash Young man, how you
manage your business don't want
any money. What's $4,000! Well,
we'll, you does things so cunning, that
I must oblige you. I will take off the
legal interest for four MONTHS
THAT won't do, Mr.. Astor, If you
have SO much money, other people
have not. Say two and a half per
cent, and tomorrow morning l will
pay the amount My boy said Mr..
Astor, you beat me down all around.
See here; it is bargain. You is
sharper than your father. Now tell
you, has given you good bargain
to-day tell me in confidence what you
do with those SKINS
Il will ask you to take two and a
half per cent. more off the cost of the
goods for the information
Dat would be paying too much.
Goodbye; you come see me in the
morning-and my supper ;; dat must be
cold
Early in the morning I sold my bills
on London at a good rate, and in or
der to conceal the whole transaction,
carried round the money to Vesey
street.
Presently, Mr.. Astor came in. You
are cunning l buy your bill myself on
the Rothschilds. A bargain is a bar
gain. The Liverpool packet came in
last night. Offers is worth a pound in
London, on a rising market. It's all
right. If you hadn't worked with my
men, examining the skins yourself,
never would have trusted you-may-be
never have sold them offers at your
figures. How you got the news first,
l don't know. Come and see me again
Buy fedders for your wife, and give
parties. I treat you first-rate about
them offers but, young man, John
Jacob make good thing out of them
skins himself, even if he sell them at
two dollars l had many a transac
ton afterwards with Aston, and had
an unlimited credit which, however
I never abused. Whenever l went
into his store to do any business with
Mr.. Astor, he would say, Cash o,
credit this time - How your wife's
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