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small things, could not have put himself through, and so assured the seller. Even the disaster of a tureen top knocked off, and charged up to Sherman, who unknowingly, it seemed, had stopped off in his march to the sea to commit the blunder, failed to make the sale.
The buyer, furthermore, is not above appealing to the emotions, and this, in certain cases, has been known to bring results. Two buyers in Raleigh, North Carolina, moved by a gate-leg table in a negro cabin in the country, to the amount of one hundred real gold dollars spread out before the owner, were amazed to find him deciding that he did not want to sell, and those around him asking him if for any reason he had suddenly "gone crazy."
