Why Can't He Get Her Custom ?
! " It's funny," said the young m-jn, who had just opened a shop in the neighbourhood, " that I can't get thai, lady's custom. I've gone out of my way to look pl>'»satit at her, and she won't oven look in here any more." " Was she ever in here ? " a^ked a customer. "Once," replied the young man; "and I treated h»r in the bei>t manner I could. She had her little boy with her, and he was delighted with the little white mouse I have in a cage on the front counter." "And she?" "Oh, she liked it 100. She said it was a pretty little thing, and setmed to enjoy his pleahure in watcoiog ifcs antics. So I just thought I'd clinch matter", and 1 took it out of the cu^e and put it on the floor. ItV tamp, you know. The boy was ?;e)fectly delighted." "And the moiihrr ?" "She said it was one of the sweetest little things she ever saw, but she jumprd on a stool and pulled her drees close around her aukles, and pretty soon 3he got hold of the biy and backed out of the door wiih him. f-he waa ever 80 much obliged to me, but she looked a little pale, aed hasn't been in here since. Funny, isn't it, when I tried to be so nice to her ? "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 52
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