The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-08-11
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mme two cents worth of those
Rta said the smooth-faced young
walking up 20 the Italian Yender
81 6 Of the post ofice. The italian.
rel me New York Sun, measured
th nuts out ands At the yogns
q suggestion, dzmpe6 them into
the Set of his coat They went into
the hand pocket, but the young
MAJ Hnged his hand Into the poetet
on We left-hand side, and, hauling out
9 AZ cracked it open and staBtea %
put contents into BIS mouth sud
denly gave q loud exclamation and
then With apparent indignation,
turue to the Italian an7Fsaid
SAY John, what kind Of peanuts "a
yOu eal these?"
81 all right" protested the Ital
ian
*An right Huthin' said the young
man. 7st look at this, y and from In
side the peanut that he had just broken
open, he pulled a small piece of paper
neatly folded up. Unfolding the paper
he read eud:
This no shell game. Use the
fam Is 8 MN Bumm Shin PIasters.
The 80 3 man took another peanut
from the ft-hand pocket and cracked
that open. Out fell another fold Of pa.
per containing the same advertisement
The Italians eyes were nearly pop.
ping out Of his head. The young man
put on great show of indignation.
B "Thaf is the worst bunco game that
ever ran against" he exclaimed
Take these peanuts back and keep
them. don't want the blame things"
and D a rapid motion, he extracted
9 handful Of peanuts from the same
lefthand pocket, and, throwing them
ID with the Italians stock, mixed them
up, and went on his way, leaving the
Italian & iculating wildly, and malz
ing forts to explain.
Ih eh was witnessed BY 8 re-
haft decided forthuth chat Tia
VAS up so some game. an
hIah EvaH streu henet
m pErqaeh anpnaf
i getting coed
est game ever, You see, it's thi
I make a living ggesting ways 70 ao1
yertise to Big concerns, Now the Bunm
Bumm Shin Plaster company wanted tQ
reach the common people with adVer.
tisements Of their stuff. So they ysend
for me and ask me for a suggestion.
The peanut game was one that
| thought out a long time ago, but had
never put into operation. The Bumm
Bumm people thought it was all right
and were willing to put up good money.
had couple of women open up
bushel of peanuts, fold up these Little
circulars, put them inside, and then,
by the use of a very small quantity Of
paste on each shell, put them together
again. sold the meat of the nuts to
candy man and got more for them than
paid for the original bushel.
81 took the lot down to the office OF
the Bumm Bumm company, and they
were dead stuck on the game. They
gave me a fat check, and, that being the
end of my contract, bobbed up with
another suggestion. you can reach q
lot of people with those things just
scattering them around the street. I
says, but I've got better game than
that Then told them that for $40
would mix those fake peanuts up with
the stocks of venders, 50 that every
man who bought peanuts on the street
would be bound to get at least one Of
ours. Say, they were dead stuck on the
game, and we closed at once. That's
all there is to it. You've seen me at
work and know how I do it. Say, but
isn't it peach Of a game? bet I've
put 40 peanut stocks on the bogus
since I started out, andI've only been
working three days"
only Two Kinds OF Cooking.