Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . any more than to go to Smith to seethat girl. Then, there is another thing one mustadopt in an antique store. You mustnot lie to the man, for if you do, he willbe a better Ananias than you. Do nottell him you can get a table for a dollarless than that—he knows for how muchyou can get one. Do not edge aroundand go out—he can tell, by the wayyou do it, if you are coming back the man as you would any otherstore keeper, do not try and find outhow much profit he is making, take itfor granted he is getting a profit bigenough to pay h
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . any more than to go to Smith to seethat girl. Then, there is another thing one mustadopt in an antique store. You mustnot lie to the man, for if you do, he willbe a better Ananias than you. Do nottell him you can get a table for a dollarless than that—he knows for how muchyou can get one. Do not edge aroundand go out—he can tell, by the wayyou do it, if you are coming back the man as you would any otherstore keeper, do not try and find outhow much profit he is making, take itfor granted he is getting a profit bigenough to pay his fashionable-streetrent and to give him a few of the dain-ties of life. Down in the city, on one of the carstreets there used to live a man to-118-. whom we often went for an lived in four rooms in a little tene-ment, one on each floor for the antiques,while the other two made up all he hadof a home. In summer it was a pretty place, thewindows lined with blue plates and cupsand pitchers, the gabled roof and thelittle pointed protection to the faced on a yard decked in reds andblacks and blues on the wash-day whenwe first went there. Before the doorthere was a line of maple trees and aroad and a lawn, half sunny. Mr. B was a short, somewhat corpulent man, had a double chin andlegs accentuated in their bow by theuncreased trousers that reached onlybelow the shoe tops. He liked a capon the back of his head, partly gray,-119-
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