clerk immediately appeared to Dobbs.

   "What can I

    do

   for you, sir?" says he.

   "A good deal," says Dobbs, "but I bet you won't."

   "I'll bet I will," says the knight of the yard-stick, "if I

    can

   ."

   "What'll you bet of that?" says the imperturbable Dobbs.

   "I'll bet a fourpence!" says the clerk, with a cute

    nod

   .

   "I'll go it," says Dobbs. "Now, trust me for a couple of dollars' wuth of yur stuffs!"

   "

    Lost

   , by Ned!" says yard-stick. "Well, there's the fourpence."

   "Thank you; call again when I want to

    trade!

   " says Dobbs.

   "Do, if you please; wouldn't like to lose your custom," says the clerk, "no how."

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