DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6063, 23 April 1881, Page 7

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

A Detroit grocer was the other day hungrily waiting for his clerk to return from dinner and give him a chance at his own noonday meal, when a boy came into his store with a basket in his hand and said, "I seed a a boy grab up this 'ere basket from the door and run, and I run after him and made him give it up." "My lad, you are an honest boy." "Yes, sir." " And you look like an honest boy." "Yes, sir." "And good boys should always be encouraged- In a box in the back room there are eight dozen eggs. You may take them home to your mother and keep the basket." The grocer had heeu saving those eggs for days and weeks ;£d reward some one. In rewarding a good boy he also got eight dozen bad eggs carried ont of the neighbourhood free of cost, and he chuckled a little chuck as he walked homewards. The afternoon waned, night came and went, and once more the grocer went to -his dinner.- -When he returned he was picking his teeth and wearing a complacent smile. His eye canght a basket of eight dozen eggs as he entered the store, and he queried, "Been buying some eggs J". "Yes; got hold of those from a farmer's boy," replied the clerk. "'A lame boy with a blue cap on ?" " Yes."' " Two front teeth out ?" " Yes." The grocer sat down and examined the eggs. The shells had been washed clean, but they were the same egtjs that good boy had lugged home the day before.