"Thirty-five francs, m'sieur," replied the dealer, briskly.

A courtly picture-dealer, eager to make a market of the new sovereign's popularity, devised even a neater compliment to him, issuing a picture of the three sovereignsLouis XII., Henri IV., and the young kingwith an explanation that 4 and 12 made 16.]

It is to the latter half of the cartilage that dealers and others mainly, if not wholly, devote their attention.

" "Well," said the delicatessen dealer, reluctantly, "last night as I stood by my window looking oudside on the street, I see me that Italian feller go by und turn in at the side door; a second lader I hear him go up the steps to Hume's place.

Wycherly, The Plain Dealer (1677).