• A SalPsmar^ Ruse A salesman suuse.

Otago Witness, Issue 1918, 24 August 1888, Page 38

• A SalPsmar^ Ruse A salesman suuse.

,At a retail drapery establishment the propnetor conceived the notion that it would eliminate the weak men from the pay-rcll if he made a rule that no ■ man who failed to sell to one of three customers who can:c in succession should be retained-* iri the establishment. This rule was in force some time. , ,-„ One feUow, who didn't intendto be treatpd J in this way, when he found himself on the, eve of losing, a third customer, a lady, was obliged to do a rascally trick. She came in with 10yds of calico, a remnant which she. had just, bought, and she wanted a yard and a-hair more. She said she had been all. over the town in a vain search to get it, matched. , . The salesman looked over all his goods, and couldn't lind anything to suit her. He began to dc alarmef), when a bright thought occurred to; hira. He put his hand to hishead'as though he remembered something, and said : . " Well, there 1 I believe I've got a remthetime^pstahi^HW^ He took her piece of calico under his arm, went upstairs, deliberately cut off a yard and at the establishment the next day, and said somebody had cheated her. But the fellow explained so plausibly to her that she must have got short measure at the place where she flirft bought her calico that she started for that shop in high dud-con. As he hasn't seen her since he concludes that she must have met with some satisfaction there. "