WINNING HIM BACK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 118, 1 June 1881, Page 4

WINNING HIM BACK.

One of the travellers for a new dry goods store recently arrived in a town in the interior of the State, to find that one of his best customers was about to transfer his custom to a Boston house. " Don't we always do well by you ?" asked the New Yorker, as he sat down for an explanation. " Yes, I believe so." " Don't we ship goods promptly ?" " Yes." " And have we ever pressed you in a pinch?" "No." "Did you get lower prices at the Boston house ?" "No, I can't say I did." " Then I can't understand why you should leave our house all of a sudden after buying of us several years." " I know that some explanation is due, and I will make one," replied the merchant. " You know that I attend church." " Yes, and so do I." "Do you ? I didn't know that. I am looked upon as a Christian." "Soam I. I've got the date of my baptism right here in my pocketbook." "Is that so ? Well, our church is in need of repairs. We were talking it over the other day, when the Boston drummer was in here, and he at once subscribed ten dollars." "Ten dollars! Why, that's only two kegs of nails. Put me down for thirty dollars, a new silk hat every season and a full suit of clothes for the minister." " Do you really mean it ?" "Of course I do ; and if that twocent Christian from Boston dares sign another five five, I'll send you down a 600dol. church organ, and pay a man 500dol. a year to play it. We are a house which never makes any great display of gospel hymns and religious tracts; but when a Boston drummer bluffs, we show our religious hand, and rake in the pot of money every time." The merchant still continues to deal with the New York house.