The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-05-25
WHAT COaEs Of SWAPPING.


fashioned ones; one feels more comfort
able IN an honest cid blue coat with a
Bang tail than in the silly things worn
aos-a-days-nothing in front and moth
ag behind; and one walks easier in old
6ccas than in new ones, especially if he
- fxpnbled with corns; and everybody
Rns rorns in due time; some hurt here,
a6zsn there.
80 think to-day, now am old; but
wHsn boy of twelve I was always hsv-
Sss something new. If got a new
&niie or new bow and arrow I carried
ahsm about with me two, three or four
AEys, then left them lying around or
kss CT snapped them and had something
esss new; and from curiosity l soon ac-
4uzred love for swapping, and from
9zis might easily have gone to something
w1rse if our Lord had not caused my old
Anc3a to give me two smart slaps at the
night time.
Every bargain needs two people, one
esrsx and one stupid. The business
Rsy be bad for both; the clever fellow
Sznanally becomes rascal, the stupid
enc beggar.
Wen, / must, without knowing it have
kased little toward the latter side, for
YeoPle have always reckoned me among
&c stupid ones, and when look at the
ooDaition of my property can't exactly
De1zkadict them. As nv friend Land
Asa Gollenreider in Trepton says, "let
"A be IS they like" got the slaps, and
SINCE IN my native city this was thought
night probably deserved them.
Bat the reason / got them is as fol-
&aws-
had a wonderfully handsome buck
Mbfdt, maltese cat with a white face, and
ny best friend, Fritz Ritsch, wanted it.
Kfaz Ritsch and were always swapping
and. I had received all kinds of fine
f11ngs from him. only it was q pity that
II shdn't exactly know what to do
v7sA them. Well, this time he wanted
- give me in exchange for my rabbit
sigAt chessmen, three blown eggs and
kAh Of q pair of shutters. was also to
Asve one of the pups of his Aunt Rump-
hrs terrier when it had pups, which,
Aevsver, as I afterwards learned by ex-
psneDce, wouldn't have beea likely to
kppen, as it was q male dog. Well,
everything was all right except the half
e the pair of shutters. couldn't get
that through my head, and asked,
Fritz, what am l to do with this old half
sAingY'
why" said he, IT found it when 1
vsnt into the wood yard yesterday; you
~ znrely find the other half there and
A.sn sell it for eight groschen."
Yen, that I might easily do but had
slm looked and never found anything,
- Tie matter seemed doubtful. Then be
MD. Fritz, for my name was Fritz,
6o-'Just think, my father is only q
hl,ckmith and your father is Burger
Ristsr; why shouldn't you find some
uiDE Is we'll as II"
This was true, so the bargain was con-
shaded and he went away. But as he
suslksd out of the garden gate with my
rsebis and stood looking at my three
SS11 eggs and half pair Of snuhers-
snek, smack got the two slaps, and
wbD / looked around saw my mother
assahsr, Uncle Mstthies, who had been
.aag behind the apple tree and heard
- UDole bargain.
ny Uncle Mstthies vas an old soldier
Hna I'D queer ways; he always struck
- and then told Why. He had been
- Hungary and Poland, seen the world
- know . great many stories; but the
- q his stories was that they always
h1s moral which would gladly had
- snit, for vhsn he came 10 il he IL
~Geys me . boz on the ear to make
- nnsmber il bsttsr.
vhsn / had received the FLAPS ny
49, MAt<hies sat down on the benck
- Ne apple tree and said, boy
- 20 know Why you had hat N
a. unsls. said I. "you hsvsnt toli
- s1suy."
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