knife-stand

Updated: May 9, 2025

For instance, I saw an assortment of 5-cent goods consisting of 167 dozen articles which would retail, as you can figure, for $100.20; cost to the dealer, $60; profit, $40.20, or 67 per cent, on the investment." "Let's go into the 5-cent business," said the cutlery man "Better start a knife-stand on the street. Do you make goods for street-men?" "No; they handle the cheapest Dutch trash."

William H. Maher - A Man of Samples : Something about the men he met "On the Road"