The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-14

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.Huddersfeld' 5 house Is damned fun
Of bargains he has Chinese chest
Of campher wood in the han that
looks like an inmigrant,'s trunk. His
aundryman had not the faintest, COM
cepfion Of the value of the thing from
ah artistic point of view. and allowed
him TO take it for SIS, but a bargain
hunter has absolutely no shame and
would Just as soon take advantage of
a confiding and innocent Chinaman as
not. Not very long. after the sale OF
the camphor-wood chest, which the
janitors contends is plain IDEAL and
wormy at that, Huddersfeld discov-
cred lovely little cloisonne vase ION q
shelf just over, Hop Sings ironing
table beneath the shrine of the God
of Most Happy Destiny and he was
constituencies enough to buy that
vase for five dollars.
Since that time several other little
articles of bric-a-brac have been
seen carelessly scattered around Hop
Sings laundry, but Huddersfeld has
bought none of them since Burk-
holder rubbed the bottom of the
cloisonne and deciphered the stamped
legend: shade in Germany"
But, as Huddersfield says, anyone
is likely to get fooled once in awhile
and the fact that the fifteenth cen
fury Florentine intaglio that he
stumbled on by accident in a pawn
brokers' shop on the West side was
duplicated in a shop in the Palais
Royal by a friend who has returned
from Paris, did not discourage him.
He has found beautiful specimen of
Flemish wood carving, for which he
thought at the time he paid almost
what it was worth, to have been
stamped by steam at Racine, Wis.
and that did not dampen his ardor.
His cigar bargain, however, left a
deep and lasting effect on him.
Wasserman was over at Hudders-
fields house one evening. Hudders-
field Owed into his chiffonier and
brought out handful of cigars and
threw them on the table. AT first
Wasserman was a little suspf :ious.
He said he had few cigars IF his
own in his pocket and was creature
of habit in the matter of tobacco. but
Huddersfield insisted and he lit one
| of the handful.
After the first few puffs Wasser-
mans face assumed an expression of
surprise, and he looked at the cigar
respectfully. Another Whit or two
and he said in a startled tone: "This
is really mighty good cigar, Hud-
dersfeld; where did you get it?"
Huddersield smiled complacently
and leaned back in his chair with his
thumbs in the armholes of his waist
coat. 'Why, I'll tell you," he said.
81 got those cigars at bargain
stumbled on them quite by accident.
It was in little out-of-the-way cigar
stand away over on the South side.
I stepped in there to get cigar
never dreamed of getting anything
fit to smoke, but had to have some
thing. The proprietor was an old
chap who acted as if he was half
baked, too.
''Well, was looking over the show
cases and I saw box away over in
the corner that looked as if it hadn't
been tapped much and thought I'd
try one of them on suspicion. It was
a little dry, but knew at the first
draw that it was the right stuff.
"'We don't sell many of them
there says the old man; they don't
seem to suit our trade. / guess I got
stuck on them
ga little rank, but it makes
smoke I said: What will you make
me these by the hundred? I point
ed to another kind, of course. I
wasn't going to let on that wanted
the one I was smoking. He made me
figure and then l. priced something
else and went on until I came to the
| corner box, and in a casual way asked
| the price of them. He said he would
sell me hundred for $3.50. and I took
him up. That's the second box you're
smoking now"
"Well,' I swami" exclaimed Wasser-
man. 'That was one time you did
strike it. It's pity he hadn't more
of them"
''As for that" returned Hudders-
field, 81 guess can get all want of
them. 1 guess the old boy has got
1000 or 1000 of them in his cellar.
I'd have taken the lot, but I'm pretty
well stocked up with some Havanas
my wife's brother got for me. He's
an importer. and ought to know a
good cigar, but I don't like his as
well as my $3.50 ones and guess
they stand me in something like SIP
Wholesale
ST don't suppose you'd care to give
me chance at them?" asked Wasser-
man, 81 don't. know when smoked
anything that suited me better and
I fatter myself / know a good
cigar"
Huddersfeld said he would be de-
lighted and he really was. Here was
one time that his bargain was appre-
ciated. Wasserman asked if a thou
sand would oe hitting him too hard !;
he replied certainly not, my boy, .
and took fWasserman's $35 with EN-
thusiasm and when he went away in
sisted that he should put some of the
cigars IN his pocket. Later he dis
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