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Nice basket, Mistuh ; lady want nice basket ? " 

 " Well, how much do you want for it ? " " Two 

 shillin', Mistuh ; nice basket." " No, I don't want it. 

 Take it away." " Mistuh, how much you give ? " 

 " No, take it away. I don't want it." " You give 

 shillin', Mistuh ? " " No. Take it away." " How 

 much you give, Mistuh ? " " Didn't I tell you, I don't 

 want it? Take it away!" 'How much you give, 

 Mistuh ? Say how much you give." " Well, look 

 here. I'll give you sixpence for it." " Oh, Mistuh ! " 

 " I won't give you another penny for it. Take it 

 away, and don't bother me." " All right, Mistuh. 

 You take." 



No sooner do the rest of the babbling crowd see 

 you handing out money for a basket than down they 

 rush on you like an avalanche, with all the above 

 named articles and many more, with the same 

 persistency and the same reduction and usually the 

 same result. Like the girl who married her persist- 

 ent admirer to get rid of him, so you buy things you 

 don't want, just to get rid of these persevering 

 traffickers. Now that we have bought till we 

 positively affirm we will not buy any more, let us 

 look down into the water. 



O, shades of the vasty deep ! what are those ( 

 Those, O vain man, those are your brethren. You 



