PLUG TERBACKER.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 1

PLUG TERBACKER.

Oue day recently, when trade was dull, a grocery clerk procured a piece of soleleather from a shoemaker, painted it black, and laid it aside for future use. Within a few days an old cli-ip fronrback iv the country came in and called for a plug of chewing tobacco. The piece of sole-leather was tied up, paid for, aud the purchaser started for home. At the end of the sixth day he returned, looking downcast and dejected, and walked into the store he inquired for the clerk. •''Member that terbacker I got here the other day?,' '_■■ - " Yes, sir." " WelU was that a new brand P" "Yes.".: ,-. ...... :: .; ■ : " Regular plug terbacker was it ?" "Yes." . ..- ■•.'■. . : .:..,' . ;

"Well, then, it's me. It's right here in nay jaws," sadly replied the old man. "I knowed Iwas ge'ting purty old, but! was allus handy in biting plug. I never seen a plug afore this one that I couldn't tear to pieces at a chaw. I sot my. Nteeth on this one and pulled and twisted like a dog at a root, and I've kept bitin' and pullin' for six days, and there he am now, the same as the day you sold her to me. " Seems to be a good plug," remarked the clerk, as he smelled the counterfeit. ". She's all right; it's me that's failing!" exclaimed the old man. "Pass me out some fine, cut, and I'll go home and deed the farm to the boys, and get'ready for the grave myself!"