National Republican., 1883-07-04

ribbed sea sand" You would take him for q
Jerseyman, with his long, dust-colored beard,
and the chin hat set back upon his crown, but
you would do well not to tell him 80.
BLESS it, no!' said he when something was
said upon the subject. 'Im New Yorker
Pve been here fifteen years. though, and I've
done pretty WE'LL too. Used to be in business
on Bond street. hut that was long ago. DO ye
know Potter Palmer in ChicagoY'
confessed the acquaintance
"Great old boy, is Potter. / used to trade
with him lots He como down here three
years ago TO see me. Lots of iiue people come
to Cape May, tell ye. Best in the land
thousands aud thousands o. them. Lookin'
up? No. IL isn't. It's been up all the while.
It's lie about the mosquitoes. Used TO know
felcr looked so like you that WHATS
yer name? Not McCrackcn-courso not
He's dead But he used to be in partnership
with my brother. and ! swear" (Which he
did as ho kimboad his arms and looked me
over "he was frightful like you"
Thank YOU
"Wolcomc. He como into pile O. money,
and in three weeks whadedo but up an dio,
blessed if he didn't. Went out buggy ridin
one afternoon an dropped stone dead o.
heart disease"
This hilarious -reminiscencc set him off in
q roar of laughter, out of which he was
dragged by an inquiry from my friend as TO
the price of black felt hat with narrow
brim and u narrow crown.
Now gentlemen" said he as he rubbed
his spectaclos, 81 swear TO God that's a
swinde, that hat is. Whatll we gimme for
it--whadaye think ought to ask?"
Ny friend suggested 75 cents.
I'll sell it to yo for fifty cents an make
money. Whadaye think / pay for 'em-don' +
give 1t away now, but the bright and shinin'
truth is, give three dollars dozen. Whada-
we think | get for 'cm2 You wouldn't
believe it. No, sir-but there was long chap
come in here from tho country the other day,
an says he, Mr. 1vcy '-Pshaw Them hats
Is the latest Paris style, that's what they are.
Want one2"
They've got London mark, and the
style is ten years DID," said my companion.
Just got 'em from New York, but that
don't go, You're right. They're no good,
but you have to give peoplo what they want,
an If you wanted one I'd just as soon swindle
you us anybody, l play 10 fav'rites.'
Here he roared again, and his blue eyes
twiukled.
"Thcrc was a long chap come in here from
the country TIL other day, an says he, Mr..
1vey I'm goin' to be married. an | want n
plug hat So | sold i'm one O. them.
Whadye think got? Five dollars, as sure as
you're foot high. If I'd asst i'm fifty cents
he'd gone away without buyin'. Lord, what
sight he was when he put it on: but
man is blessed fool in the marryin' season,
sure enough. Bless your heart, I've had my
arms-what is it, masm? In minute. Pve
had my arms around tho necks O. forty thou
san women in my tme-eh?"
The lady who had walked in-an elderly
lady, with the vincgarish evidences of spinis-
terhood radiantly conspicuous in her nose
said, oh myw and vanished into the street
:" Yes, sir" continued Mr. Ivey; "Ive had
an average sometimes as high as five thousand
a year of EN- to measure for bathing
suits. Wonder if that lady thought
was Turk? James Gordon Bennett
figured it all out once, an bel
me against Worth-.that womens tailor, ye
know, in Paris-bccausc somebody'd Dragged
Worth had measured more of 'em than any
other man in the world. No, SIR says Ben.
nett, there's Ivey, Cape May City, state oi
New Jersey, United States of America, hat
measured more'n anybody an he won the
bet--Hello! What're ye doin' there? Blcst
il he hasn't been maxim my picture while PvC
been takin. Ho! Mrs. Ivey!" land he clutched
the bit and ran with 1t into the back room)
Here's a gentleman sketched me while was
sellin' bathin' suit My! But that's good
Come in again some day when l amt busy
an I'll stand for ye-yes, will, I'll stand
ye for it, but III do it for nothin,
seein's its you. An I'll drive the both of yC
out to my place, four miles on the highway
an give ye the cramps with fruit, blest If
don't any time Come out an get sick"
=. IN is offered as possible explanation Of the
prevalence of sea breezes here that something
of the kind is required to balance Ivoy, whose
store faces shoreward. w. d. L.