Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-09-14


Mr. Bonalli bargained for the fire.
irons and the cherry-wood chair, and
the sly old octogenarian became avari-
cious and grasping in proportion as he
saw the eagerness OF his customer.
"Wal," said he, ''we'll call it forty
five dollars for the two, Mr.. Bunley, if
that's your name. But won't let them
go at this price unless you'll take my
girls, too"
Mr.. Bonalli started back.
"Your-girls, STRIP he stammered.
Sand say sixty for all. f" added Mr..
Hezekiah Hotchkiss, briskly. "Come!
you can't expect no fairer than that"
"But-tUo Of themP" cried Mr.. Bo-
nalli, aghast
Couldn't separate em nohow," said
the old man, taking snuff. While the
rosy Sally, to Mr. Bonallis infinite
amazement, began to laugh heartily.
"Grandpa's always trying to get rid
Of his girls" said she.
"But nobody ever wants them," seri-
ously added Eunice.
And still they were not in the least
abashed or confused, these strange,
bright-eyed damsels of the woods, at
thus being pressed like dumb wares
upon the city customer
Mr.. Bonalli felt as If he could have
sunk through the cracks of the floor.
But" said he, 'I-I am single
gentleman"
"Oh, that makes no difference" said
Hotchkiss, smartly. "Why should
itP"
"And / don't know what / could
possibly do with the-the young La
dies, " he added, carefully averting his
glance from Eunice and Sally, SO that
he mi ght in no wise add to their con-
fusion. 'Pm sure l should be very
happy if"
''Why, put 'em where you put the
cheer and the fire-irons," said Mr..
Hotchkiss. "Where do other people
put such truckP"
But here Eunice came close to the
gentleman customers elbow.
''Take 'em, why don't youP" said she,
in low voice. They're not dear; and
grandpa will never be easy until he
bargains them off. Ifthey're of no use
to you, you can easily dispose OF them
in some of the secondhand stores in
New York"
'I beg your pardon" said Mr.. Bon.
ALI, over whose mind ahorrible appre-
hension had began to steal, and he was
to be married, Mormon fashion, to two
young women at once, in spite of all
his struggles and protestations, "but-
when Mr. Hotchkiss speaks of his girls
! -doesn't-doesn't he allude to you two
[ young ladiesp"
Eunice stepped back on heap OF old
chair-cushions; Sally burst out laugh
} ing.
Goodness me! what are you think
{ ing ofP' cried Sally. "To 10"
I 'It's the Dancing Nymphs of Cano-
| va that grandpa means, explained
Eunice, crimsoning to her very eye
brows. "Those horrid old cracked
concerns that nobody wants"
with neither nose nor fingers,
: added Sally, with fresh peal of laugh
! ter, land nothing but simpering faces
? in plaster"
"Oh! said Mr. Bonalli, feeling in
i tensely mortified and confused. "Ah
Indeedl Certainly, Mr. Hotchkiss, i
you make it condition will take tbs
: Dancing Nymphs' at that valuation
So the bargain was completed, the
7 money paid down, and Mr.. Bonall
went away with peculiar sensation o
t one who has escaped some dreadful
; doom.
''Wal,n said Hezekiah Hotchkiss, sur
veying the scene through spectacle(
eyes, ''that's a good stroke of business
5 Put the things to one side, girls. unit
| the chap from the hotel comes 10 pack
'em up"
Sally said Eunice, "did thnt MAI
: really think grandpa was trying tx
bargain us away with the second hanC
furniturer
"Of course he did, poor fellow" sait
: Sally. Didn't you observe hog he wa
g trying to get rid of us as civilly as pos
4 sibleP'
{ What would Tom Rainey sayP
q cried Eunice, clasping her hands. 81
only he knew"
!, what would Johnny Ksterbrool
d thinkP' echoed Sally, with fresh &C
/ cession Of mirth. 'If only I dared II
tell himI''
: 81 never haard of such thing in my
n life" exclaimed the scandalized Eunice
: 'sThe man must be brimfull of conceit
It even to dream Of such an dear
r But she was mistaken there Th'
9 error had been natural enough. Ant
! MIR. Raphael Bonalli was no more self
It conceited than other men. The faul
r all lay with the patriarch, who wa
p rubbing his hands with glee at the sale
he had made, and crying Out st tina
o identical moment;
d "Come. girls, come; amt It almoa
Q dianer timeP Bargaining's huagEi