A small shopkeeper relates the following as an example at what ho has to put p •with from his 'customers: —In re- _ jonse to a sharp note to the effect that Jf Mra G ■ did not pay up before the end of the the account, would bo placed in tho hands of a debt collector, the lady came herael'f and promised to pay a sovereign on account on Saturday. On the Thursday night Mrs G 's daughter entered the shop with the cool request: "Please, mother says will you lot heir have two pounds of .bacon out o' 4be «>vereiga £he jroin&jed yer?"
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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 5
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103Untitled Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 5
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