The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-02
PEANUT CRAFTTNESS.
AN ITALIAN PEDOLER WHO UNDER
STANDS HUMAN NATURE.

Others Mako de Appetite and H
'Maka de Hoa'-Hou shreud yende
Takes Advantage of the Wind and HI
Companions Ignorance.
A newspaper man who is fond of no
roasted peanuts, and generally pur
chases pint Of them daily from som.
street vender in Park row, noticed OF
one occasion that a particularly svarthy
old Italian gave him better measure fo1
his money and also larger and more per
feet nuts than any other. Accordingly
being a thrifty man, even in small
things, he resolved to deal with this fel
low exclusively if possible.
The next day, however, as he descend
ed the stairway Of the elevated railway
he missed the vender at his accustomed
stand, and SO purchased pint of pea.
nuts, which subsequently turned out &c
be rather wormy lot, from another sor
of Italy. He had not got half way &c
Broadway when he came across the gen
erous vender selling his wares as usual,
but in different place from the one he
occupied the day before.
The newspaper man did not want two
| pints of peanuts, and III fact he had not
then discovered the wormy condition of
| his recent purchase, nevertheless he made
! mental note of the new stand of his
chosen source of supply and passed
along.
/ DoDGING AROUND.
The next time he had occasion to 90
through Park row he entered it from
Broadway. He looked about for his
peanut vender, expecting to find him at
the new stand, but he was not. His
honesty has bankrupted him." solilo-
quized the newspaper man. at evil
IDENTIFY pays better to remain in one spot
and sell wormy nuts" So he purchased
from another vender and got among his
change plugged Canadian dime, which
a horsecar conductor subsequently re-
turned to him with loudly expressed
scorn.
This thing happened several times.
The honest vender always shifted his
position and his would-be customer al
ways bought his nuts elsewhere. Final
" it flashed into the mind of the news
paper man, whose brain was generally
go busy with the big questions of the
day, that the circumstances Just de-
scribed had hardly been noticed by him
at all up to that time, that this honest
vender was always in Park row, some
where between the elevated road and
Broadway, so he determined not to buy
any nuts till he came up to him, wher-
ever his chosen stand for the day might
be.
Accordingly, the next day he passed
several vendors before he came to the
shifting merchant, but was rewarded by
a heaping measure of particularly fine
nuts.
"Why don't you stay in one place."
asked the newspaper man. Il like to
buy your nuts, and 1 would do so every
day if could find you without so much
trouble. really can't spare the time to
keep thinking of you and trifing pint
of nuts all the way from the elevated
road to Broadway. If l knew just
where you were l need only think of
you as pass your stand, and my mind
would do that mechanically without in
terupting my other thoughts. See?"
"No unnerstando," said the Italian,
with bright smile.
THE SECRET OUT.
81 suppose not, said the other. "Why
don't you get one stand and stay there
like the other fellows" he shouted, fall
ing into the popular belief that people
understand a foreign tongue when it is
screamed at them more readily than
when it is whispered.
The Italian shrugged his shoulders.
"Tinks [ get reglah customers" he
asked with grin.
Certainly said the adviser. Look
at me, for instance"
why you reglah customer of me
and not of other fellahs: Lika de good
nut. eh:" and he showed his white teeth
from ear to ear.
We'll, that's So" replied the news
paper man with laugh. I'D deal with
you anyway, and you've found that out
/ suppose you'll begin to treat me less
generously by degrees. now that you
think you've got me. But what makes
you shift about so anyway: The others
don't do it"
1.-The wind" said the peddler, and
then he looked as if he had admitted too
much, and would say no more. But the
mans curiosity was aroused,
and after dealing with the man for a
week or two he won his confidence, and /
finally learned what the wind had to do
with il.
well, said the Italian. still grinning, |
81 tell you. People dat lika de good nut /
reglah follow me; people dat lika nut /
once in while | follow dem. More of /
dose don de odder Today wind blow
from dat Dago vender up de street, who /
always stand in one place, to me, who 1
shift about, Man come along very busy /
and pass his stand. Just as he 60 by he .
get strong smell of roasts peanut. He /
tink he like some. but no time to go back.
Plenty other fellahs,' he say Den he
come TO me and buy some. To-morra,
praps. wind blowa de odder way 1
20 odder side of Dago dat always
stand in one place, and ! catcha de Gus
tomahs dat he cause wsnta de nut He
maks de appetite, maka de mon
New York Tribune.
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