The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-28
WELL SOLD TURTLE.
1T WAS OF THE SWAPPING KIND, AND
THEREBY HANGS THIS TALE.

Success-QualIties Displayed In a Small
Transaction which Pleased the Banker.
81 would not have minded Johns ac-
ton on the floor the other day." said
broker to party of friends yesterday,
eff he had not used such tone of sus-
picion when he demanded more margin
on certain stocks that l had with him
in loan.
It's only his way, Charlie ~ said a
nearer. HE didn't mean to injure you
at all"
Possibly he did not, said the first
speaker. 1T may have been due to the
training that old Dutch banker -
gave him and his innate desire to let
nothing escape.
"When he and were boys" Charlie
continued 81 spent several summers on
his fathers farm out in Jersey. 1t was
there that he met his partner, and there
is a curious little story connected with
their first business transaction, one in
which he did the old fellow, but at
the same time endeared himself to him.
"John and 1 had been fishing, and
among other things had caught snap
ping turtle that weighed about 20
pounds. We were carrying the snapper
home tied to stick, one having hold of
each end of it, when we met the bank
er driving along in a buggy to his sum-
mer home.
"Our catch presented good appear
ance, and the old fellow stopped to in
quire about it, as he had never seen so
large a turtle before except in the mar
ket. He asked what we were going to
do with it, and we told him what deli.
cious soup it would make. At once he
wanted it and offered so cents for it. l
was for accepting the 90 cents, but not
so John. He felt that he had custom
Ell and held out for 81, and he got it.
"Old - was little afraid of the
snapper's jaws, but John and l bridled
the turtle by passing bit of fishing
line around it and between its jaws
and so tied it's head well back underrits
shell. We then received our silver dol
lar, tossed the snapper under the seat of
the old mans buggy, and he drove off
with it.
Gas he did so 1 started on toward
home, but John sat by the roadside.
What are you waiting for?' l said
" The snapper, said John.
It's gone, said l.
"'Mebbe it is, and mebbe it ain t.
Wait minute and watch the old man,
said he.
"And sure enough, before the old
man had gone half mile we heard him
yell and then saw him jump from his
buggy.
''John rolled on the grass and laugh
ed nearly as loudly as the old man had
yelled.
"Picking himself up, he said, Let's
go get our snapper.
I'D rather have the dollar, said.
What's the matter with having
both?' he replied, and tossing me the
dollar and telling me to remain where
I was he started up the road after the
old man, who was afraid to go near his
buggy, for the snapper had bitten
through its bride, had nipped the old
man shins and had taken undisputed
possession of the buggy.
He found the old fellow in a state
of CONSERVATION, swearing at the snap
per in the most expressive German al
his command and rubbing his shins al
the same time
what you sell me-de devils? asked
the old man.
"'No, a nice fat, juicy snapper, said
D John, and 1 sold him too cheaply, too.
He'll make delicious soup and plenty
of it,
'Donnerwetter! Soup! I'll hat NJ
, soup! Gift me my tollar and take d.
brute.
"I haven't your dollar Charley has
it back there in the road. Take the
snapper to him, and l guess he'll give
you the dollar.
. Me! Me take dat eatin ting?
wouldn't get into that PIGGY now for ,
quarter ench way. Get i'm out and keel
, the tollar
1T was like rolling off log for JOIN
to take a stick, prod the snapper ant
jerk him to the ground as soon as HI
e had fastened his jaws upon it. OLD
: Dutchy, as we called him, jumped int
his buggy as soon as the snapper reach
ed the ground and drove hurriedly away
"Of course / rejoined John, and VIZ
soon had his snappership swinging from
our stick We walked home in tri
umph, with the dollar in one pocket ant
the snapper, metaphorically, i'll th'
other Our joke was too good to keep
and that night we related it to all whC
a visited the mill.
: "The old man bore us no i'll will, bu
!, still he never wanted to buy any more
of our 'schnappers, although he occa
" or ~ ut Thorn
n the seat of his buggy when he met u
carrying them home.
+ John and were sitting on the mil
:. steps one evening when the old MAJ
drove up. He stopped, asked John t.
ride with him, and together they drov'
off. They were gone about an hour
That night John said, I'm going to b.
o banker