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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

NOT FOR SALE

GUESS the Hartlows have a differ- thing that he was doing must be a blow ent idea of human nature now. They to his pride. Also, the fact that he were always a snobbish bunch, those wasn't selling anything to speak of Now, if Ennis Hartlows. Their ancestry dates back must have hurt too.

to the old Yankee traders. That's had been smart like his ancestors- where they got their money.

Old well, Old Jonas would have figured Jonas Hartlow owned a flock of sail- some solution to the problem, ing yessels and he traded in the Orient But that's where I guessed, wrong. and the West Indies and all over the forgot to figure that Ennis had Jonas'. place and made himself a heap of blood in his veins. I forgot to figure money. Eventually it all came down Ennis had any brains at all. Anyway, to Ennis..

this is what happened:

A week after the sign went up, it Ennis and his family live in the same came down. That same day Mrs. big house on the hill back of the town. Hartlow began, house cleaning. She Only now that house is remodelled and cleaned one room at a time, setting the modernized. The furniture is the furniture out in her front yard while same. It's about that furniture that she done her scrubbing: Well, sir, that I want to tell you.

furniture hadn't been · there an hour

You see, two years ago the govern, before a tourist car pulled up and the ment built a road-a main highway occupants got out and looked over the going north through Belleville, and furniture and began asking prices. the way the engineers figured, this road Ennis quoted 'em prices, and by Jinks had to go plumb through Ennis Hart they bought without a whimper. low's front yard. Ennis was as sore But that was only the beginning.

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

as a wet hen. He put up an awful Every pleasant day thereafter Mrs. squawk. Went down to Washington Hartlow cleaned house; moving her and used all the influence. he couldn't furniture out of doors and laying it and it didn't do a whit of good. around helter-skelter haphazard. like, so Well, sir, they put the road through it'd appear genuine, and every day and it proved a boon to Belleville. We tourist cars stopped and asked prices. haven't any industries, you know, Noth- Well, sir, the Hartlow fortune be, ing but farming and fishing, and farm- gam looking upp but Ennis: apparently ing and fishing aren't what they used wasn't satisfied. He figured, by jinks, to be. Bub us folks is enterprising, so that if that's the way folks were he when we saw the flocks and flocks of might as well go the limit. So what'd tourists passing through we figured he do? He printed a lot of signs that these tourists has got money to spend said: "Not for Sale!! And when Mrs. and by jinks we ought to get some of Hartlow moved her. things out into the yard, Ennis affixed a "Not for Sale"

it

So we ups and builds roadside stands sign on to it. And what happened? and opened our houses to overnight Why it danged near drove them tour- guests and fixed up lawns and things ismafrantics: Cars were flagg in the and, by jinks, the tourist business be- yard all day long. Something that came our biggest industry. -

somebody else didn't want sell was Tourists are a curious lot. They're right up their alley. antique-minded, so to speak.. They'd You could see Ennis, azoheaded see an old piece of discarded furniture and frowning, standing in the yard around and they'd buy it. You can't bargaining with them tomats, and fool' 'em either. It's got to be old or from what I hear here and there they won't pay mossey of

reckon some of the prices he got for Well, sir, the way the tourists would his antiques were fabulous. look longingly and wistfully at Ennis At any rate, the Hartlows are rich Hartlow's house was something. Yan again. But here's the point: They see, we'd told them that all the old and learned a few things about human original antiques in town were up nature, and now they're humán there at Ennis' place, but Ennis themselves. They're not high hat wouldn't let no one in. He put up any more, but associate with us folks signs and bought himself a watchdog in the village and make right good ci- and threatened to shoot nosey folks tizens.

who tried to investigate. Seemed a (Copyright, 1938, By The Associat- pity, 'cause most of the furniture En- ed Newspapera).

nis had had long since outlived its.

practical uses Why not, therefore, sell

A year passed and then one day we got a surprise. Ennis hung a sign out on his front door that read: “Antiques for Sale. Tourists. Welcome." Well, sir, it was a shock, but before twenty- four hours had passed we knew that the Hartlows had taken a loss in some business deal or another and needed money.

BAN ON NORTH CHINA NEWSPAPER

Peiping, To-day.

Upon the Japanese Embassy re-

plying to the protest concerning

We figured every danged tourist that the banning from the mails of the

hike right up the

TORE

but

came

it also

han they saw that Peking and Tientsin Times,” the

that happened.

one look that British Embassy has renewed

Hard to figure,

ture. Soon it be protest.

its

Ennis wanted to sell, The Japanese- reply, said that a

evident he wanted

|money. And when a man wants money, copy could be delivered to the Bri- he might resort to such things as sell tish Embassy only.

ing inferior products. It's things that It is learned that Japanese mili- folks don't want to sell that other tary headquarters ordered the ban folks want to bugija

Firkind at felt,sonry for Rumis. He'd on the newspaper because of alleg never worked a day in his life, This ed subversive activities.-Reuter,