“‘Yah; dot vas ven I had some. Now I ain’t got none, I sell him for dwenty cents. Dot makes a repudation for selling cheab, und I don’t lose noddings.’
“You see,” said Mr. Depew, laughing, “I didn’t want any sausage and the man didn’t have any; no demand and no supply, and still the price of sausage went down five cents.”
“Well, there are strange things in this world,” I said. “Now, take the words manufacture and make. I always thought that both words meant the same thing.”
“Why, they do, Eli,” said Mr. Depew.
“Not always,” I said.
“Now, when could they have a different meaning?”
“Why, this morning I came down from Albany on a Central car manufactured to carry fifty passengers, but it was made to carry seventy-two people.”
“Yes, I dare say; but we’ll now talk about the Behring Sea question.”
“The veracity of his statement is doubted.” The sentence should be, “The truth of his statement is doubted,” or “In making that statement his veracity is doubted.” Veracity is applied to the person; truth to the thing.