Hit Back.
At the fancy good* countr-r of a large shop a handpomelj'-drasscd middle-aged woman with a Dv Maurler profile a .id a hard mouth was scoldiug a girl behind the counter who had said that a fan the dowager had been examining was hand-painlcj.
''Why, you wretched, impudent hussy, you!'" srid the customer, "how dare you stand there and tell me that fan is hand-painted, when any infant in arms can see that it is only stamped?"
" Mac 1 am,"' returned the shopwoman. "it is now a matter of complete indifference to me whether you buy this fan or not, or any other fan m this shop. All the same, I want to a?a : n assure you that it is hand-painted — every bit as much hand-painted a? you are yourself!''
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Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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131Hit Back. Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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