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The river ordinarily freezes over about the end of October, when the merchants erect booths on the ice, in which they expose their wares of all kinds for sale, as in a fair or market; and they here sell great numbers of cattle and swine, and great quantities of corn, timber, and all other necessaries of life; every thing being procurable in great abundance all the winter.
He even offered to mortgage his little farm in Vermont for the amount which young slave women of their ages would fetch. But the creditors pleaded that they were "an extra article," and would sell for more than common slaves; and must, therefore, be sold at auction.
On that day fifty years before, his father, confined by illness, had begged him to take his place to sell books at a stall at Uttoxeter. Pride made him refuse.
No, dear, I won't sell you my book; but, if you like, you may have a peep into it whenever you come this way.
"Do you want to make a dollar, kid?" he asked, jingling four quarters enticingly. The boy's eyes never left the fist that held the tempting bait. "Betcherlife," he answered. "Well, then," instructed Garrick, "take these newspapers. I don't want you to sell any of them on the street. But when you come to that garage over there see it? I want you to yell, 'Extra special extra!
How did she do that, father?" "Dyer had a mortgage of three hundred dollars on his farm, and was going to sell him out in mid-winter, when nobody who cared to befriend him had money to spare. On the very day I heard about his trouble, Mary called on me and asked the loan of a sum sufficient to lift the mortgage. "But how could she pay you back that sum?" asked the young man in surprise.
I had heard from the captain of the Phoebe that an expedition was fitting out in India for the capture of Batavia, the chief town in Java, of which the French now held possession; and we had great hopes, if we could reach it soon after the English had gained the place, which of course we expected they would do, that we should sell a large portion of our cargo to great advantage.
Nevertheless, in his extremity he resolved to sell it now, and, taking the key, he went up to the room where he kept it a closet that was sacred to the relics of her who lay in his heart for ever, but in his house no more.
At these fairs, even more than in the towns, merchants from a distance gathered to buy the products peculiar to the part of England where the fair was held, and to sell their own articles of importation or production. The large fairs furnished by far the best markets of the time.
But luckily the Maniffets have been known in Paris as honest people for generations, while as for you " "Sir," said Derues, "this case contains valuable wine which I am commissioned to sell. To-morrow I shall receive the money for it; to-morrow, in the course of the day, I will pay what I owe you.
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