Importunity Rewarded.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 148, 28 May 1885, Page 3

Importunity Rewarded.

The Printers' 'limes says : — " Here. is a good story that urny encourage advertisiuent canvassers, who at times me*t with relmiFn from those whose patronage they solicit. Amouj/ dus sdvei-tisment canvassers ere-wl>ilp euploved on. the staff of the Medical aad Pharmaceutical Time* was a gentleman, of the name of Biclianl Puud. In him special vocation he wax facile princeps. When he once wado uji 'his iniuil to have an onlrifor 26 or 52 insertion* ot an udvertisetnent he would take n6 denial. Nothing could <lau»t, disc jurage, oi repel him. It is related by Dr. Sluuss that one day Fond walked into the shop of a chemist nuioed Richard^ for the renewal order of an adveiti»ement. The chemist was not disposed to renew, averring that adverti«iiii( did u«»t pay m his case. Pond wurmly argued the point, Hnd would nor lie deuiod. The chemist thus pestered lost his tetupeiy and told the canvasser to leave hw shop, with which request the latter promptly complied. Almost immediately after he returned, however, and asked Mr. Richards for a pennyworth of Epsom salts, for which ho tendered a half-era wu pieco for i>ayment. He repeated this n«i less than sixteen times runuing.al ways bent on the same errand. At lust the unhappy cheiniuti caved m. >l Take your order, Pond, for mercy's sake, anil begone!'' he cried, ia comic despair. Pond grate fully aclcnowledgttd the clieatist's " kind compliance with hia humi»le request," and Mien offered to ie sell to his p;iuon, at half price, the Ep*om sails he had puttihuHttd. Not the least ' 'aui'usiiij; \>ari, of the al4»ry is that Pond al't«i- ward* 1 couf&Med that lus hud borrow^! the half-crowns with which he had pestered the ch«.'iuint from a friend m thu ( hoighbourhooil. H« had however, carried his point.