'That's cornerin' the market.

Law of supply and demand exemplified.' "''Cordin' to that law,' says I, 'when you was so set on fishin' to-day and hunted me up to run your boat here--'cause I was about the only chap who could run it and wa'n't otherwise busy--I'd ought to have charged you twenty dollars instead of ten.' "'Sure you had,' he says, grinnin'.

'But you weren't shrewd enough to grasp the situation and do it.

Now the deal's closed and it's too late.' "He went on talkin' about 'pools' and deals' and such.

How prices of this stock and that was shoved up a-purpose till a lot of folks had put their money in it and then was smashed flat so's all hands but the 'poolers' would be what he called 'squeezed out,' and the gang would get their cash.