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Bill, tell him he can send me home those twenty bullocks, at three half-pence each and so on. But at night he subsides into an auctioneer, and, with knocking down lots while others are conversing, gets removed occasionally to a padded room. Sometimes we humor him, and he sells us the furniture after a spirited competition, and debits the amounts, for cash is not abundant here.
Young Dalton Mann, representing the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, raised his hand and snapped his fingers at the auctioneer. "And a hundred thousand!" he shouted. "And a hundred thousand!" Matt Peasley retorted. "And fifty thousand!" Mann flung back at him. Matt Peasley eyed his antagonist belligerently. "That's doing very well for a young fellow," Searles complimented the last bidder.
Nevertheless it is, and there is not only a wide field for them, but it is a fact that the average merchant can well afford to and will give a good live auctioneer a large percentage for clearing out his odds and ends, as often as once a year, and this can be continued from place to place the year round.
The tourist need not turn aside to seek evidences: he will very readily observe the red flag of the auctioneer floating over the slave pen, on which he may read in large letters, waving in the pure air of heaven, "SLAVES, HORSES, AND OTHER CATTLE, in lots to suit purchasers!"
This friend quietly and persistently moved through the crowd, telling them why our goods were there, and advising to give them a "terrible letting alone." The auctioneer stated on what account they were there, to be sold, asked for bidders, winked his eye and said "no bidders." Our goods were sent back to our store.
She was the only one in a hurry except Mingo. He was trying to see her, but she was hiding from him behind grandpère; yet not from the auctioneer. The auctioneer stopped. "'Who authorized you to bid here? he asked her. "'Nobody, sir; I's free. She held up her paper. "Grandpère nodded to the auctioneer. "'Will Mr. Chapdelaine please read it out? "He read it out, signature and all.
Of all the family, Charlie was the one that caused his friends the most anxiety. He was a fine, spirited, intelligent boy; and Uncle Josie had promised to procure a situation for him, with his son-in-law, a commission-merchant and auctioneer, in New York. This plan was very pleasing to Mrs.
"Yes, or No?" demanded the chairman with a Napoleonic pose. But the general superintendent was loth to answer. "Yes, or No?" Mr. Josler hesitated, equivocated, and asked to be allowed to confer with his chief. "Yes, or No?" demanded the fearless leader, lifting his hand like an auctioneer.
I continued to use that same speech for years, with an occasional slight variation, but was never able to improve on it very much. I then began my sale, and very soon felt perfectly at home, and made a great hit, much to the evident satisfaction of my employer, and entirely so to myself. My success as an auctioneer was assured from the result of my first sale.
Man and philosopher as I am, my impulse would have been to consign the contents of the garret to the auctioneer or the ash-man, and to retain most of the least-used furniture and upholstery to eke out our new splendor. But Josephine's method was distinctly opposite.
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