My recently departed father in law (almost 97 YOA) told me often about when if he had a dime, he could buy 20 .22 Shorts or 10 .22 Longs with it. The store keeper would open a box and sell you as many as you had money for. Said one time he only had a nickel and the storekeeper gave him his choice of nine shorts or four longs and one short! Also said in season, he could bring in a gallon of fresh picked blackberries to the storekeeper and he'd give him ten cents credit for them. One season he picked almost enough blackberries at ten cents a gallon to buy a single shot .22LR Winchester rifle from the storekeeper. Said he had made five dollars credit and his dad paid the balance due, which was 25 cents. My wife and I now have that $5.25 rifle. Her dad said he wished he could see all the squirrels he killed with it in SE Missouri back in the thirties. Ah ... the good old days, eh?

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So long ... Ken