Didn't Want To Sell.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1887, Page 4

Didn't Want To Sell.

The other day a man walked into a harbor's shop, followed by a page, who deposited a portable table on tho floor, and took from a satchel a number of tonsorial ware 3 and arranged them on it with artistic care. " This is pomade," said the visitor. "I'm well supplied." "Thia \s bear's grease." " I've more bear's greas3 for a year." " Here is some fine bay rum." "It no doubt ia ; but I mako my own myself down in the cellar and put on foreign labels. No.one knows thodifference.and I sell lota of it for presenta." The visitor, not in tho least daunted, went on:—"Here is rosemary," " That is for remembrance," softly cooed tho tonsorial mower ; " but I don't want any in mine, nor pansies for thoughts, nor cabbage for reverie — Shakspeare with variations,' "Here _3 coametic for the moustacho." "I know it ia for the moustache, and for tha goatee, the imparial, and the side whiskers, but I am bo thoroughly stocked and reeking with coamotic at present that I am trying to uso it upon the cafe, which I frequently polish up like the bosom of a variety actor's Diamond." —Here is an electric brush, a triplox comb, a duplex elliptic bairdyo, an oxyhydrogan lavoudor water, and a thermocauter-.ed|face-powder." •' I don't want any of them." " I know you don't." " Thon why do you ask me to buy them?" "I don't ask you to buy them. Did I say anything to you about buying them ?" " Come to think of ib you did'nt." "You can just bofc I did'nt, for I didn't como in here to sell you anything. I camo in to lot you know that I possoss all the toilet articles that a gentleman needs. Now don't try to sell me anything, or praiso up your wares, and tell me that I ought to own a samplo of each ifl wish to be respected. I am stocked I stocked I I stocked I I ! Now give me an easy ehavo without interrogation points."