straw-balancing

Updated: June 25, 2025

If you'll quit selling, I'll quit chewing it," and he looked as if he had set a fancy trap for his straw-balancing brother, as he held him to be. "It's a bargain," said Burridge on the instant. "It's a bargain!" And from that day on tobacco was not offered for sale in that store, although there was a large local demand for it.

Theodore Dreiser - Twelve Men