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Any old iron rags ?" Mrs. Miserleigh heard his cry and having a large quantity of paper rags to dispose of, called to him from an upper front window of the mansion and old Jacob alighted from his wagon and walked around to the kitchen door to examine what she wished to sell. The old woman was a shrewd bar- gainer and haggled with Jacob over the gfice which he offered for the rags, and after much parleying and many offers and rejections, a compromise was effected and Jacob paid over the money fo...r his pur- chase. As he proceeded to tie up the bundle, he com- (176) Bargain and Sale of Old Rags. 177 plained bitterly of his poverty with vehement earn- estness, and explained how he was compelled to travel the streets early and late, through heat and cold, sunshine and storm, day after day, and year after year for a meager subsistence. He ended his pathetic complaint by saying that he had a sick wife to provide for, and also an orphan girl whom he had found in a nest of straw in an old hogs- head in an abandoned cellar, suffering from malarial fever and had taken her to his home.
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