HE HAD NO NEED OF ONE.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume IX, Issue 26, 26 November 1903, Page 3

HE HAD NO NEED OF ONE.

A persevering canvasser walked into a lawyer’s office in New York with a new kind of alarm clock. The man of quibbles was evidently interested, and heard him patiently to the end. When it came his turn to get jn a word—which in these cases is about pnce in an hour and a half—he spoke much Its is hereinafter contained : ' “My friend, I firmly believe that that Alarm clock is woith seven dollars, as you state, and that you are foolish to offer it to me at two and a half; that it will go ofl very half-hour for sixteen months without winding up, and wake up an elephant every pop. My heart tells me this is true, and 1 pm simply aching to give you four times the amount you demand. But when I inform you that I have an infant three months old at home, afflicted with perpetual wakeful-, ness, and a youngster going on three, who insists on having a drink of water at regular intervals during the night, and never sleeps after four o’clock in the morning, do you not think that my investment in this beautiful invention which you are retailing might in a measure be characterised as extravagant. The clock agent sighed profoundly, and