BUYING GOODS ASLEEP.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4833, 5 July 1884, Page 4

BUYING GOODS ASLEEP.

A fat descendant of one of the old Dutch Burghers waa, a while ago, attending an auction sale. Everybody knows that{ at , these sales, a nod is taken as a bid. Very soon after the sale commenced, the Dutch ' merchant,' who had sat up lats the night before, fell into a comfortable snooze ; in which condition, as people are apt to do ' who sit and sleep, he kept Nid, nod, nodding. The' auctioneer, supposing he was buying goods all ■ the while, knocked down several lots in his name. The sale was * closed, and the Dutchman, unconscious of having made any purchases, rubbed bis eyes and returned home. It may be sup* posed, then, that, he waa prodigiously astonished, the next morning, when a bill of goods as long as his arm, purporting to have been purchased by him'the day before, was sent to him. " Here's a bill of your goods, sir," said the mercury of the yard stick. "Minegopts!" exclaimed the Dutch" naanj " rat gbots ?" t " Why, the goods you purchased yesterday at auction." "Mine gootness ! I buys no goots yes- ., terday. I attend a sale, to be sure, but I 1 did "not pid." - * •rNot bid ! How comes it then that the goods were stuck down to you ?" - -"Mine gracious! now I tinks hovr it was: I get, ashleep, and while I was noddin', de auctioneer made de mistake."