“How much am I bid for this fine basket of delicious vittles. Come on now fellas, put your hand in your pocket and pull out those bills.”
That’s what you might have heard back around the 1900s at an old-fashioned basket or box social. It was a way of raising money for schools, churches or other needy organizations.
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