The Baltimore County union., 1882-12-09
THE GIvE-AwAY GAME.

ado you know" said man who was
selling jewelry from dry goods box to
a reporter for the Atlanta Contribution,
"that the Americans are the easiest hum
bugged Of any in the world II is true,
and l have helped to humbug them
about as much as the average man.
Somebody had just been reading an ac-
count Of the Louisville lottery drawing,
which brought forth this speech.
"Can't you tell us some OF your ex-
perience in that line1" asked a man
near.
"well, you would laugh to know
what fools people make OF themselves
sometimes. About two weeks ago
was down in Brunswick, where ! saw a
fellow running perfectly square game,
but which was the most ont and out
steal | ever heard Of His plan was
simple, and hundreds OF the very best
people Of the town focked to give him
trial. He rented 4 store and put a
showcase across the counter in the GEN.
tire. In the showcase he had, know,
my hat full of $40 and sac gold coins,
piled in 4 heap in one corner, and in
the other about the same sized pile OF
silver dollars. A dice box and six dice
completed his outfit. BY paying so
cents man had one throw with the
dice. II he threw six skies he took the
entire pile Of gold; il he threw six aces
he was entitled to all the silver. or
course he knew no one ever threw all
the skies, neither was il possible to get
the aces to come all in bunch. A
man might as well expect to get struck
by lightning from cloudless sky at
MONDAY rs to throw six aces il is al
most an impossibili,y, that's all. Well,
the fellow made several hundred dollars
and left."
"Did you ever hear of how easy il
was to fool man with soap?" contin-
ued the talker. eve street men know
that as an old story, Of course. was
down to Troy, Ala. several months ago,
when fellow came along almost strap
ped. He went to a grocery store,
bought few bars Of this transparent
soap, cut il into small pieces about the
size Of ones thumb, wrapped il in col
ored tissue paper very neatly, and then
covered the package with tin foil, sprink-
ling il with bottle Of cologne to give
il good smell. Well, sir, that fellow
got on box and soon gathered crowd
by some nice talking, and proposed to
take out all the grease from hats, coats,
etc, that could be brought in. The
first case presented was the city marshal,
who walked up with great spot on his
coat which he wanted taken out. The
fellow carried sponge well saturated
with benzine and arnica, which Of itself
will take out almost anything, and by
using bit Of the soap soon had the
marshal's coat entirely free from grease.
That started the soap sales, and in two
or three hours, it being Saturday and a
crowd in town, the soap man had sold
$50 worth, nearly all of which was clear
profit"
Stopping to draw a long breath the
jewelry man continued his interesting
story. al tell you you can humbug
anybody. am not unlike the rest oi
the world. believe | would bite a,
my own tricks il could get in the
crowd.
"While was at Brunswick, Ca.
some time ago, took revenge on the
town by playing what we term the
'give-away racket II is a mighty fine
thing to play, but very dangerous one
in some localities. i had been using q
big umbrella, large enough to cover fifty
people, when one night on the street .
crowd Of sailors, led on by some Of the
town boys, threw rotten eggs at the um'
brella and broke up the crowd. Then
resolved on the 'give-away racket. -
A fellow has to be mighty careful about
working il, or he will get caught out
Il can only be played once in town.
"The way to do il is this: Get loI
Of fine gold rings, which cost about 81
dozen, and propose to be advertising
some big gold concern in New York
| / called mine the brazed gold Of Sar
Francisco, stated that would show th,
crowd thing or two, and soon got then
interested. First, I made speech il
which ! stated my business, then ! com
menced TO offer the rings at any pric'
from two cents up, telling them tha
they could not be bought for less thar
s. apiece at n jewelers.. let on
about twenty rings at two cents, ans
then asked everybody who had bough