GAINED HIS POINT.

Lake County Press, Issue 2136, 20 September 1906, Page 7

GAINED HIS POINT.

A prosperous country merchant. who had installed a telephone near tile front, door of his shop, one morning- stepped up to the transmitter to answer a call. Just then a farmer who had never seen a telephone before, came into the place and inquired : "Wanter buy any eggs ?" The merchant who was intent upon getting his message, gazed abstractedly at Die farmer and shouted into the telephone, "I can't hear !" •'Wanter buy any eggs?" shouted the farmer in a voice that made the windows rattle. Still unable to hear the man who was at the other end of the wire, the merchant again remarked, this time without looking at the farmer : "1 can't hear ! Speak' louder !" For the third time the farmer spoko roaring out his previous question so loudly, that passcrsby stopped and asked what was the matter. This had the desired effect. The merchant left the telephone, forgetting his call, and, turning savagely on the intruder, remarked : "No, confound it, I don't want any eggs." The farmer smiled, and as he went out was heard to remark softly : "I never did see one of them deaf feller, but I could make 'em hear if I only let myself out."