NEARLY CAUGHT HIM.
He was a shopwalker at a fashionable emporium in the city, and the prompt Way he directed shoppers had made him invaluable in the eyes of his employer. The other day, however, a woman almost brought his reputation to the dust. “Where can I see some petticoats?” she' asked. The shopwalker scratched his head in puzzlement for a minute or two, and then, inspiration coining, he declared: “Antique department, on the top floor, madam.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 21 (Supplement)
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