THE OTHER SORT OF SWINDLER.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4832, 4 July 1884, Page 2

THE OTHER SORT OF SWINDLER.

•There were six'or eight of us in the smoking car as ths train was running from West Point to Atlanta; md everything; waslorely until the seventh man got on at a small station. He had no sooner entered the oar than he looked fixedly at the man who had been telling us snake stories, and directly he walkeh up to bint and called out,:^:v---v i^^J^'r-?-'^^ 'fit ;:■ 11 Ha! you infernal swindler, I've found you^at ltst!"-/--;::/- :\-"i\ :<^:-;^-. ■.■:■;■■-. .-• "Who'iaswiadler?^ ■ "Youarer^ .^^;--:i.-^: ;i-.-^VV-- .

\.'l* I never saw you' beforei!" §18 worthof cash out of youl!^ \\'mIt was presently discpver# that he recognised the snake story!v man; as a fruit tree agent who had sold him some erapo vines which did not sho^ up; and to was spitting on his hands and making ready to do- the poundingr- whenwthe other remarked ;.;:•: ■■.-.■■!;-; t--,{.^J'^:;. :i .:^;^-:L^. .'■

"My dear fellow, I insist upon it tbal you are mistaken, I w as never in the fruit tree business, and; I n^Vjß*!iirindlei :you out of $LB." : -^/ * *.;>% wittpw^.,

"I say you did." r '! N! rZtl ?nstea* 'of swinliJiig flit out of^lSongrapevines.l^thSSw who charged yoa §16 toA much for » sewing machine, *nd teraVybur money." V V^ ell« no^»{ oomo to look more closely at you, I belierejoa^eriguC said the seventh man; >c ". WOf I#m ri «nt/' growled th» other, ashe counted optthemon^yi "and f*^ r *> :.'I-VT« * reputatibn^ t<> sostaitt, aud grope tine swindles are not iiy my line! acres 7^^^^^^^, ought to apologise." ■ :■• ■ ..■