. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. HEALTHY CATTLE FOR SLAUGHTER. JACK-KNIFE BEN. Every one around 3he stockyards district knows many years he !-as been the faithful purveyor-in-ordinary to all who desired to acquire the indispensablejack-knife, and had the equivalent in coin of the realm. jaI ein viertel thaler to exchange therefor Like the hand of the dyer, as-similating in color the material wherein it works, thename of this peripatetic merchant has taken on atr^nomen identifying and describing the vocationof its owne
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. HEALTHY CATTLE FOR SLAUGHTER. JACK-KNIFE BEN. Every one around 3he stockyards district knows many years he !-as been the faithful purveyor-in-ordinary to all who desired to acquire the indispensablejack-knife, and had the equivalent in coin of the realm. jaI ein viertel thaler to exchange therefor Like the hand of the dyer, as-similating in color the material wherein it works, thename of this peripatetic merchant has taken on atr^nomen identifying and describing the vocationof its owner, and -ack-knife Ben isa person of mucheasier identification by most of his acquaintances thanhe would be should any one ignorantly or inadvertentlyspeak of him as Mr. Benjamin Chew. Indeed, it 141 142 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY may beseriously doubted if Jack-koife Ben would knowwho was addressed should he be apostrophized as , or spoken to in any other way than as ^Jack-knife, or (when the speaker was more than usuallyconfidential) as plain Ben. Besides being well known he is very popular withthose with whom he comes in constant contact, despitethe fact that the proverbial wooden nutmeg Yankee athis best is no more than a match for him when it comesdown to a deal in knives. But there is such an air ofshrewd and cheerful humor in everything that Ben do
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