St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
VERY CLOSE MEN.
an Account of Gentlemen Who Were Toe
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an Account of Gentlemen Who Were Toe
stingy to Enjoy Good Health.
A party of men were speaking of
sangy people. "Old Peleg Gregg was
Ehe stingiest man I ever knew said
ABE Patterson. Tell you what's
TACT. He was sick ope time, just on
She caving bank of death. Some MEM
Der of the family sent for physician,
and when the doctor arrived, Peleg
asked:
"'Whut do yer ak fur yer medicine.
doctor-how much dose?' a.
"Let me see, about fifty cents
"'How many do you think it'll take
TO cure me?' s ri
"'Two, think. - E@
Fifty cents apiece bout as cheapas
ger kin sell emp 0ss
Yes rg
=" Tell yer what'll do. III gin yer
SIXTY cents fur dose an hat
Won't sell that way
Wall, then, good day. 81
He was surely very close man."
said Rufe Potter, "a very careful man.
but You never heard of Sack Scallop,
did you? He lived down on Longmetre
Bayou. One day he was out in the
woods and tree fell across him and
mashed him into the ground. He yelled
and yelled, and finally fellow came
along and asked what was up.
"'Nothin up growled Sack. I'm
down, that's the trouble. l want you
to chop this here log in two M roll it
often me-
'What'll yer gimme?'
What do yer ax?'
"Do it for twenty-five cents
"'Great Scott! do yer think I'm
made outen money!
"tAll right! won't do it for less
"'Wall, how much'll yer charge ter
60 home an tell my son ter come out
here?'
"'Ten cents
"'Whut, jes' fur walkin that little dis.
tancee Yer must take me fur fool.
Go on, don't want nothin' to do with
yer"
) SWELL. he was prudent" said Bill
ings. ''almost morbidly SO. He re-
minds me, in point of economy, of an
old fellow named Jerry Finch. One
day he went into a store and wanted to
buy six feet of rope. The dealer, know
ing Jerry's peculiar love of money, told
him that he might have the rope for ten
cents.
".Tll give you five.'
"sI can't sell it for that. Why, man,
you've got plenty of money and ought
not to grumble.
Yes, but times are powerful hard.
Can't stand that price He went away
and after staying about two hours, came
back and asked:
THAT rope fell anya'
".No, sir
Goodbye
$50 long
The next day he entered the store
and remarked: i hear that rope ID
fallen all over the country"
!. "'That SOP
".Yes. Hear that over here at Cot.
ton Town yer kin git ten feet fur .
nickle.'
"'Why don't you 60 over there?'
Don't want to wear out my shoes.
Say, has it fell any here?'
s's'Not bit.
"'Wall, goodbye
$50 long
1.-TWO days later he came back. Say
said he. 'haln't yer got some OLD rope
that you ken sell cheap?s
"'No old rope
".New rope hain't fell none yit?'
"'Confound the luck, take it along
for nickel The old fellow carefully
measured the rope, and with disap-
pointed air, said: Say, it's, three
inches short; can't you knock off some
thingp', til. III
tsYes, give me four cents
's'Say three
"'Well, three IS
He gave him postage stamp and
hurried away. That evening he was
found hanging from rafter in his barn.
He left few lines of writing congratu-
lating himself on the fact that the rope |
with which he hanged himself was so
cheap. There may be closer men, but
I have never met them. "--Arkansaao
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