Hammer
Now, we'll take lot #25, right where you're standing. Will you please get your feet off this lot? You're getting it all dirty.
Now, here's a lot, folks. It doesn't look very big on top, but it's all yours as far down as you want to go, and it's dirt cheap. Now, what am I offered for lot #25? Anything at all? Who'll start it off? Anyone at all? Anyone at—
What's become of Peter Rabbit? What am I offered for lot 25? Come on folks, you're all allowed to bid. This is a free country. What am I offered for lot 25? What am I offered for lot 25 and a year's subscription to The Youth's Companion? Will somebody take a year's subscription? I'm trying to work my way through college. Will somebody take a six-month subscription? I'll go to high school.
Does anybody want to buy a lead pencil? I'll wrestle anybody in the crowd for five dollars. Well, if there's not going to be anymore bidding, I might as well quit. What's the matter with you people? Can't you visualize bargains? Don't you want to make money?
Now, I'm going to try one more lot, and if I don't dispose of this, I'm going to fold up. Do you get me? Now we're going to take lot #26, the star lot of the whole proceedings. Here it is, right over there where the stump of that tree is, overlooking the ocean front—one of the finest sites in Florida. Now, somebody make me an offer!