text:  As the Yankee pedlar raised his hand and signed to the vociferous blackamoor to be silent the face of the former gradually assumed that droll cunning and yet earnest expression which betrays those double distilled Hebrews when they are planning to get possession in a quasi-legal manner of the dollars of their fellow-citizens; in a word when they are manoeuvering to exchange their worthless northern wares for the sterling coin of the south