GOOD STORY OF A YANKEE AUCTIONEER.
A story is told of a Yankee auctioneer who was provokingly annoyed while in the exercise of his profession by the ludicrous bids of a fellow whose sole 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 on a biped of huge dimensions, a very monarch in strength, and cried out, "Marlow, what shall I give you to put that fellow out ?" "I take one fife-dollar bill." " 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, old Marlow strode oil' 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 frin, you go out mit me. I give you half the money " " Done—done ?" cried the fellow " Hurrah—hurrah !" shouted the audience. The auctioneer had the good sense to join in the laugh, and coolly handed over the livedollar bill.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 441, 12 November 1875, Page 3
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