Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1900-12-08

downtown for four times the money"
be says.
Il don't believe you could get one
hie IL at any price" says the frienl.
with evident sincerity. and Hucders-
field makes up his mind that he is
man of fine Discrimination. When the
friend gets lack 90 his hotel he scrds
out for sore dyspepsia tablets. buf
he acquits Hudders field OF meanness.
for he knows that ne could have dined .
decentiy and in a decent place for +
two-thirds of the charge. not count I,
ing the street car fares.
Hudders fields house is jammed fuu
| Of bargains. lie has Chinese chest
Of camphor-wood I'm the hall that |
| looks like an immigrants trunk. Ills !
! laundryman had not the faintcst con- /
| ception of the value OF the thing from
an artistic point OF view. and allowed
| aim 10 take il for Sis but bargain
| hunter has absolutely no shame and
would Just as soon take advantage OF
a confding and innocent Chinaman as
not Not very long after the sale Of
the camphor.wood chest. which the
ianitor contends is plain deal and
wormy at that. Huddsrsfeld discov-
cred a lovely little cioisonne vase on a
! shelf just over Hop Sings ironing
table beneath the shrine of the God
of Most Happy Destiny and he MS
constituencies enough TO buy that
vase for FIVE dollars.
Since that time several other little
articles OF hric-a-brac have been
seen carelessly scattered around Hop
Sings laundry. but Hudccrsfcld has
bought none OF them since Burt-
holder rubbed the bottom OF the
cloisonne and deciphered the stamped
legend: Made ia Germany
But. as Huddersficld SAYS. anyone
Is likely 20 get fooled once in awhile
and the fact that the fifteenth cen
tury Floreutine intagiio that he
stumbled on by accident in n pawn
hroler's shop cn the West side was
duplicated in shop in the Paiais
Royal by n 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 IL was worth. 60 have been
stamped by steam at Racine. Wis.
and that did not dampen his ardor
His cigar bargain. however left n
deep and lasting effect on him
Wasserman was over at Hudders-
fields house one evening. Hudders-
field dived into his chiffonier and
brought out a handful OF cigars and
threw them on the table. At first
, Wasserman was little suspicious.
He said he had a few cigars of his
own in his pocket and was creature
OF habit in the matter of tobacco. but
Hudders6eld insisted and he lit one
of the handful.
After the first few puffs Wssser-
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 a mighty good cigar. Hrd-
dersfeld; where did you get it?''
Huddersheld smiled comp.acently
aud leaned back in his chair with his
- thumbs ia the armholes OF his wais T.
I coat. "Why. IN tell YOU" he said
t 81 got those cigars at bargain
stumbled on them quite by accident
- Ii was in "A little out-of-the-Nvay cigar
e stand away over ON the South side
r / stepped in there 10 get a cigar
I never dreamed Of getting anything
= fit TO smoke, but had 10 have sorae-
i thing. The proprietor was an old
chap who acted as If he was hall
r baked. too.
"Weil. l was looking over the show
- cases and l saw a box away over in
= the corner that looked as il il hadn't
J.. been tapped much and / thought I'd
l. try one of them on suspicion. IL wa.
Z a little dry, but | knew at the frs
: draw that it was the right stun.
n 1--WE don't sell many of then
there. says the old man; they dom
@ seem TO suit our trade. l guess ! GO
h stuck on them
$ "A little rank. but il make.
r smoke said: What viii YOU max,
j me these 10y the hundred? point
Ie ed 20 another kind, of course.
X wasn't going 10 let on that / wanted
!" the one l was smoking. He mgde IN,
m figure and then I priced something
n else and went on until I came to tn,
n corner box. and in casual way askes
o. the price Of them. He said he woul,
v sell me a hundred for $3.50. and tool
r him up. That's the second box your,
r smoking now"
e. Well / swami" exclaimed Wasser
p man. "Thaf was one time you Iii,
4 strike It. It's pity he hadn't NOR
Is OF them"
e. "As for that" returned Hudders
e. field. Il guess j can get all l want o
ly them. l gue1s the old boy has go
d. 5000 or 4.O0O of them in his cellar
it I'd have taken the lot, but I'm prett.