The Diplomatic Grocer.
She was newly married and did not know a little about either housekeeping or shopping, and she was giving her very first order. It. was a crusher, but the grocer was a clever man and was used to all kinds of orders, and -.ould interpret them easily. "I want two pounds of paralysed sugar," she began. "Two cans of condemned milk." ""Ves'm.'' He set dowi pulverised sugar and condemned milk. A bag of fresh salt. Be sure it is fr«h." "Y.?a'm. What next?" "A pound of desecrated -odfish." He wrote glibly, "desiccated cod." "Nothing more, ma'am? We have some nice horseradish jiwt in." "Xo,"_she said, "it arould be of no use to us; we dou't keep a horse." <, Then the grocer sat clown and fanned Limsclf with a washboard, although the temperature was freezing. — Woman's Home Companion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 72
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