Even Praying Bid Not Help Him.
Booksellers' assistants will tell you many quaint stories of the little ignorances of their customers. For example,' a lady cam© vaguely into a "shop one day and' said she wanted,a book the name-of which she had forgotten. The assistant offered a suggestion'or two. The^lady brightened. "It's rather 'The 'Cricket by Stocfcet, or 'The Stocket Minister,' by Cricket, and X cannot remember which," she "said. The - assistant, of course, at once produced "The Stickit Minister,'' by Crockett. But now_ and then the ignorance is on the other side .of the counter. "I have not got it, madam;"' said the bookseller, in. answer to a request for a volume of Robert Browning's works. "I make it a rule never to "stock ' any books I cannot understand; and I cannot make head or tail of Browning. Can you?" The lady put the second choice. "Have you Praed, then?" The •bookseller replied, "Yes, madam, I've prayed; and even-that does not help me."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 89
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164Even Praying Bid Not Help Him. Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 89
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