Tot Quite as Advertised.

Otago Witness, Issue 2501, 19 February 1902, Page 72

T ot Quite as Advertised.

A Dublin optician adverti-ed in tho Irish newspapers that he was prepared to supply spectacles by the aid of which " any person could easily read the finest print." A countryman who heard of the advertisement called at the shop one day to be fitted with a pair. After he looked hard through the spectacles at the open book which' had beenset before him, he declared that he could not make out the printed page. Another pair of spectacles of a stronger po-.ver was placed upon his nose, but the result was an unsuccessful as before. Further trials with other glosses yielded! no better result, until at length the almosb. distracted shopman passed him a pair of the most powerful lenses he had in his shop. The countryman, quite as impatient as tha shopman at having to try so many different: pairs of glasses, now glowered at the printed! page with all his might. "pa» £°v read the printing now 2" i*»

quired the shopman, pretty certain that he had )the "right pair this time. Shure, not one bit," was the reply. "Can you 'read at all?" asked tho shopman, unable to conceal his vexation anylonger. "Read at all, is it?" cried the countryman. "There's not a single word among thim that I can identify the faytures of." "Do you know how to read?" demanded the shopman, impatiently. " Out wid ye !" exclaimed the countryman, throwing down the spectacles in anger. " If I end read, what wud I be after buying a pair of spectacles for? You chate people by sayin' that yer glasses wu<f help thim to read easily, but it's a big lie ! Ah, ye bla' guard ; ye thought I'd bny thim without trying thim en .