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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...trade-marks upon his person. "When I buy a horse," he would say, " I look at his teeth; with a farmer, I look at his hands." Joseph's white hands were as thorns in his step-father's side. "Father is on the back porch," said Joseph. "He's buying eggs of a man. Did you ever see father buy eggs? You'd better take a lesson. It's a kind of retroactive thing. The man sells the eggs, and father sells the man." We found Uncle Elijah on the back porch with a basket of eggs before him. A wooden ring was in his hand. Any egg which would go through the ring he rejected; only the eggs which stuck came up to his standard for buying. Uncle Elijah nodded to us, and went on with his purchasing. "Penneniah," I whispered in her ear, "ask him twelve thousand five hundred for the farm, not thirteen thousand." "Annie Tousey," Penneniah replied, in the same tone, "you said on the way out that you wouldn't come down a single penny." "I hadn't seen that ring then," I answered. "Pen, I really think you'd better say twelve thousand." "Very well," she answered; and when Uncle Elijah was ready to give us his attention, that was the offer Pen made him. Uncle Elijah had one habit of awful fascination to me. Whenever he talked on business matters he remodelled his features with his fingers, one after the other, in a kind of innocent, pensive way, not to his personal advantage. He remodelled his nose and lips on this occasion, but not his heart. He would only repeat his offer of ten thousand, which Pen refused as absolutely. The interview was short, and conducted on my sister's side with some asperity, which Uncle Elijah met with forbearance as aggravating as it was unyielding. On ...Hide synopsis
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