A NECESSARY NOTICE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8999, 23 January 1906, Page 6

A NECESSARY NOTICE

"Now," said the fussy old gentleman, putting one of .the biggest strawberries in his mouth and picking up another, "what is the sense of having that sign read 'Fresh strawberries for sale?' Don't you see that 'fresh strawberries' would be enough? Don't you suppose that everybody knows they are for sale?"

"I dunno," answered the fruiterer's assistant, who, although he had only left school a few weeks, was well up in his trade; "some folks seem to think we're giving them away."

And the old gentl^Oftn pat the berry back in the bos. |.