The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-08-11
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other common liquid that might be put
| in them.
When these were fun. sealed up and
ornamented with the stems, held in the
proper places by glue, they so closely
resembled the green gonrds that it
would have taken vigilant eye TIC
detect me difference.
These gourds L placed in the bottom
of my cart among paper-rags and tag
locks. If any one saw and spoke OF
them, / replied that it was lot that
had bought to CRAFTY whim.
/ So it came TO pass that a select circle
of my customers in the Pine-Tree State
received from Etime to time a gourdful
of something, which always noticed
they were very anxious about. On re-
turning the gourds TO me, they filed
them with water on grain of some kind.
and carefully restored the stem TO its
place.
This kind of smuggling went on for
a long time without interruption. My
customers were not informers, as you
may suppose. | felt in no danger OF
have lost hand sooner than given the
! slightest hint to the ''prohibitionists. y
/ Nevertheless, | did not make much
money out of the business 1t was not
done by me for money, nor had any
/ idea of turning my cart into travelling
rum-shop. l never carried moe than
the dozen gourds at once. and these
more to crafty little circle of genial
old fellows whom | knew, than for any
motive of gain.
i One day | stopped to trade at house
near the s.Corners," in the town OF
F., where there had of late been
several rum cases. tried. There were
three or four women at this house, and
as usual, they came out to look over my
tin-ware, prints and notions in the cart.
Women always will do that whether
they want to buy or not; we expect it.
1t IL one OF the things a peddler must
accept good-naturedly
/ When | first began peddling. this
habit of the women made me angry: for
i thought they did it to make me work
in folding things up aud putting them
/ away again. But that il not t1e rea.
som They cannot help it; ii is natural
/ 70 them: Aud they like to see ped
| der fold and replace his goods care
fully, even If it takes him half an hour.
| You would thiak, perhaps, That they
did not care, or realize, how much work
they make the trader; but they do, and
/ that IS The funniest part of it, and think
very much more of youif you have I'M
bounded patience with them.
| Albright woman always knows that
she has several weaknesses, and She is
apt TO .coniideein q man who she sees
| knows u ana mas heartfui OF patience
ZOE her Whlms, IL TOOK me thirty or
iorty years TO learn even SO much OF
i wonlan nature. ! don't pretend to
f eno" 49, euou. "onien seti anu IN
-"e'' NJ 90" 'ne i''s'i VINO aiu;
AS l nave sald' there were three OF
TOUR women at the mousse, one OF them
very prettY' blue-eyed young lady
ABOUT twenty years Old, who seemed to
pc q caller or visitor. She came to the
PACK OF the cart with the Others and
While peerlng IN, her sharp eyes spied
one o. the gourds'
~, said she, do let me look al
that droii, crook-necked squash!' and
at once she pulled one of them from
under the paper-rags.
II CHANGED to be one that had re-
ceived back from an old customer only
the day before, null OF barley-corns.
de had neglected to glue on the stem
as carefully as he should have done.
| Whlle the young lady was holding it,
the stem came of and some OF the bar
ley ran out.
mat circumstance l might perhaps
have explained satisfactorily to her, if
| nothing else except the barley had RIM
bout But something else, not percep-
tible to the eye, but appreciable by the
nose, also came out of the gourd.
She first shifted, and then put it to
her pretty little nose and shifted again.
Then she gave me quick little look
out Of the corners of her blue eyes.
Iknewlin an instant that Twas caught,
though she did not say a word for
moment or two, and then only asked
me. innocently enough, to be so kind as
| to. sell her one of those droll little
gourds.s f.sf slx9 T.
| tired, to plead of. / wanted to
carry them all home, / said, which was
very true.
But she pouted and seized another
one--one of the FIJI oacs. too, as it
happened land said that [ must, and
that should sell her that one.
| i was now in trouble. AS coolly as
could, replied: emo, no; cannot do
sit.p But she had the ssgourd. in her
hand, and | could not very well get it
without taking it from her by force.
and that wouldn't do.
She offered me fifty cents, and held
Oh To tile pOtlru. Il would NOT take the