" "And what about woman?" returned the Scalper, "doesn't she begin as a sell, continue as a sell, and depart as a sell?" "She does," replied the doctor.

Haint you that man?" "You don't mean the chap who was U.S. Assessor, agin whom I heard them Wall street brokers and scalpers cussin and swearin like a lot of Rocky Mountin savages chock full of fluid pirotecknicks, because he made them pay a goverment tax?"

[person who buys or sells stocks] investor, speculator, operator; bull, buyer; bear, short seller; scalper, arbitrager^, arbitrageur^; stockholder, share-holder, stockholder of record; bond holder, coupon- clipper [Sarc.].

Who Mrs. Melissa Varnum was; how she came to be traveling from Midland City to the end of the track on a scalper's ticket; and in what manner she was given her choice of paying fare to the conductor or leaving the train at Gastonthese are details with which we need not concern ourselves.

The woman was put off one of our trains because she was trying to travel on a scalper's ticket.

Our preservers scattered to their homes, and the would-be scalpers were seen no more, leaving the world to darkness and to us in the woods.

" "O, Mother, why are the men in the front baldheaded?" "They bought their tickets from scalpers, my child.