Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-10-05

for him. Twenty studs were soon out;
and the same speech made. Then I
made the crowd hold up the diamonds,
and each man got fifty cents back who
had bought
The thing began to get very inter-
esting, and the crowd numbered three
or four hundred. Then / got out some
beautiful gold-plated sleeve-buttons,
which explained could not be bought
for less than twelve dollars. These ]
proposed to sell for fifty cents each,
giving to all who bought half a dollar
additional as before, each time doub-
ling the money gift. The buttons soon
went off, as did the other things; and
was ready for the final bite at the
crowd. The twenty pair Of sleeve
buttons had been sold for half dollar,
and had given back twenty silver dol
lars: That fellows d FOOL ] heard
all around me, but / replied to this by
saying that last week, in Macon, had
given away $500, and that / was
ready to do it again.
The crowd was perfectly crazy to
see what came next. It was watch
chaiiis. the chains ! was tosell at
any price from $3.50 to anything
above that one wanted to give, /
telling them the while that the
more they paid the better it would be
for them. I limited that the watches
would come next, and this let them off
like lot Of wild men. The trick now
was to sell as many chains as possible
at $3.50. / had deuce Of d lot Of
chains, and SO I sent them out right
and left. fhe dollars came rushing
blindly at me, and 1 raked them ID
like chaff: Then I got out Of chains.
Previously had prepared two big
red silk handkerchiefs exactly alike,
and as soon as the chains were all sold
I took the money, and, in the presence
of the crowd, tied it all up together,
and, after making speech, proposed
to throw the bundle to the crowd for
the best man to take. While talking
1 ptFposely dropped the bundle into
my little box by my side, in which I
had the other handkerchief. Iii this
one was ten dollars in silver, and some
paper to make it stand out and look
like The one had dropped. All this
had been arranged beforehand, of
course. With whoop | slung the
bag around my head after STOPPING to
pick it up where I had first dropped
it, and up it went into the air. Great
heavens you should have seen the
mob l never saw anything like
it. They fought like tigers over the
handkerchief, while took occasion to
leave the spot. had also arranged to
bring the thing to climax about the
time the Albany train left, 50 was
driven at 6fce to the depot. I was
just $3.50 ahead. But I got verg
weak in the knees while waiting at
thedepot ! was little too soon, and
about a dozen yotng men ran up,
raising the very mischief Of d noise,
which thought was for me, and it
proved to be true. They saw me and
came around me, laughing and knock
ing each other like crazy men. l
didn't know what on earth was the
matter until they finally told me it
was the best joke that had ever been
played on Brunswick, and although
they had been victimized, they wanted
to assure me it was all right,
1 had sold the chains to nearly ali
the best men in Brunswick, some of
them paying me as high as $5 for
them. I was satisfied to leave, and had
my revenge. You may put it down
for fact that any average American
crowd can be humbugged the same
way every day in the week.