DOING AN AUCTIONEER.
A story is told of an auctioneer who was provokingly annoyed, while in the exercise of his profession, by the ludicrous bids of a fellow whose object seemed to be to make sport for the buyers rather than himself to buy. At length, enraged beyond endurance, the knight of the hammer, looking around the room for a champion to avenge his wrongs, fixed his eyes upon a person of huge dimensions, a very monarch in strength, and cried out, "Marlow, what shall I give you to put that fellow out?"—"I will do it for a crown!"—"Done, done!—you shall have it." Assuming the• ferocious, knitting his brows, spreading his nostrils like a lion's, and putting on the wolf all over, his head and shoulders, Mr Marlow strode over to the aggressor, and seizing the terrified wretch by the collar, said to him, in a whisper that was heard all over the room, "My good friend, you go out with me; I'll give you half the money."—" Done, done ! " said the fellow. "Hurrah! hurrah!" shouted %lae audience. The auctioneer had the good sense tq join in the iaugh, and coolly handed over the five shillings.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 188, 15 January 1875, Page 3
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196DOING AN AUCTIONEER. Globe, Volume II, Issue 188, 15 January 1875, Page 3
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