| Summary: | barter The words "Barter account," appearing often in this book, are an example of the old practice of a dealer shipping a small quantity of fish to a firm, not for the credit of his general, or "supply" or "company", account on their books, but to be exchanged for goods in the shop; the analogue of a cash sale. Firms would often open, especially in small settlements, a small branch shop where credit was not given to dealers, but where sales of goods were always in exchange for cash, fish, furs, oil, etc., whence the well-known term "barter shop" in Newfoundland usage, and the contemptuous saying, "He han's got larnin' enough to run a barter shop." PRINTED ITEM G.M.Story August 1963 Used I Used I Not used
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