Antidote With Every Sale.
"'Not long ago," remarked a travelling Inan, " I went up the picturesque Kentucky River on a little steamboat which ryna from Louisville to Frankfort. Tho
boat passes through eight or ton Government locks during the trip. On the boat I encountered a queer old customer — a longbeorded, grizzled Kcntuckian, who was full of mteiesting rcmini=conc<?-.
'" ' Once on a tune,' ho said, ' I madc> a heap o' memoy up an' down this little ol" 11', ci— a p^ddhn'.' •''What did jon ped'Hf-' T a«l-rd.
'" " Kepid«,' l.c an-wcrcd; ' pli'ym' keards an' Bibles' ""That was a e,ucer slock in-trade," wa«. :ny comment. 'How did you happen to !ia 1 c such :i muca lot as that?' " ' I bon<rht it at auction down t' Loo's-
ille,' he explained 'The auctioneer lumped Vm, c o I had to tak/; 'cm. But I got rid of 'cm — ye-, Mice — c\'iy 01m of 'cm. l'nople along thU mci" 1-. alius wild for plajin' kearcU ; I fold them plajm' keards for 2c'ol a pack. They went off rapid, e\"iy one of 'cm- v-, -.iree ; an' 1 didn't ha\e n..ry Bible left cm hand, nuthei "" How much did \ou get for your B.blcs ■ ' J asked.
""Laws," the icmini c eent Kentuckian e\ulainr>d. 'them Bible-, went off l.mid, too; I guc; "em away with th' keard--
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Otago Witness, Issue 2504, 19 March 1902, Page 72
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220Antidote With Every Sale. Otago Witness, Issue 2504, 19 March 1902, Page 72
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