Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-01-19
THE SECOND HAND silver MAN.
Quaint Down Fastener VINO Found lIis
BONANZA at Homo.

n Quaint Down Easterner Who Found His
BONANZA at Homo.
Down near Cape Cod spry little man
jumped out Of q dilapidated buggy and
ran into q country store.
Morn. Any plugged or clipped silver
to sell todayY' no asked OF the merchant.
wal, I'd no; haint got time to look It
up. Next time you come along, mebbe. I"
"Oh! ! amt In no hurry; look round
some, will ye, an I'll hang round a spell. +"
oval, I'll see."
''Do you find the old silver business
profitabler' asked q young man who sat
on q soap box, smoking.
Yes, yes" answered tho spry man,
sitting down socially and picking his
teeth with n Taunton herring. my ole
man was Calyforny forty y-niner, but I
find moro OF q bonanzy round these parts
thnn he ever fetched hum. This hoss an
buggy o mine hez put up at every tavern
In eastern Massachusetts,, and / make a
pretty fair thing out ont, year in IN
year out. I buy this ere mutilated stuff
by Troy weight an sell IL to tho bullion
brokers'"
'IIow do you fix the pricef'
'Cordin' to market rates." said the
little man pompously. "Then ! get lots
Of old teaspoons an things that's bent or
broke from some o. the farm houses.
'Tother day fcller thought he's goin' to
play smart on me. He'd q lot OF silver
odds md ends, and weighed 'em on
avverdcpoy scales fore cum along. /
weighed 'em on these Troy scales, an
told him the ounces. Hold, on sez he,
there's morent that, cause / weighed
it, an l couldn't make the critter believe
warnt tryin' to stick him."
Ever get any antique silver that isn't
broken upf'
Sometimes, but folks gently hold
Ontcr them old heirlooms. 'Taint long,
though, sence 1 got big. long, chased
spoon with twisted handle that looked
rs though 1t come over In the Mayflower,
and oncet ! got n silver porringer or
christenin' cup, the feller called 1t when
] sold it to him.
piggeries round Dedham and Hyde
park. The hogs arc fed on city swill,
and lots o. forks an spoons gets chucked
In by careless help. A good deal on't's
plated stuff, an that don't have no call
to meddle with. know an ole woman
that owns piggcry that got n half a
barrel full o plated forks an spoons.
She can't sell 'em, an she's too mean to
give en- away. Sometimes rings an
things gets in. Then, again, 1 buy old
watch cases, pins an rings with stones
knocked out, or anything that's gold or
silver.
Say" continued the spry man, in n
fit of confidence, "I'll let ye look into
my box IL you want to-"
lie had n curious collection-pieces of
little thin, old fashioned teaspoons,
quaint time blackened jewelry with
deep chasings, old Spanish milled dol.
lars and pistareens; heterogeneous heap
OF worn. battered, clipped and perforated
coins; the lid of n silver snuff box and
the handle Of gold headed canc.
SHOULD think you'd be afraid Of get
ting robbed" suggested tho admiring
young man.
Lord! there hain't no highwaymen
about here" said tho bonanza man, re-
Provingly.. "a feller stopped me oncet
down in Plymouth woods, but told the
durn fool ter git out, an he did. guess
he'd been a drinkin' rum, an callated to
skecr me little."-Boston Herald.