SHOPPING EXPERIENCE.
The Napier News gives the following experience in Bhopkeeping. We wonder if the same thing ever happens ia New Plymouth :—: — (Scene : A drapery establishment.) Lady Customer: llavo you received your spring goods ? Clerk: Yea'm. Lady Customer: Let me see them, please. Clerk : What kind do you wish to see ? Lady Customer: Dress goods. Clerk: What kind of dress goods ? Lady Customer: Yes, dress good?. Clurk: Do jou want any particular color 01 ijuality ? Ludy Customer: I don't know till I hco it. (Clerk shows a promiscuous lot oE dress goods.) Lady Customer: Let mo see your gin"haniH (Ckrk sliows ginghams.) Lady Customer: Let mo eco your bou rett- n -ukl cmvah olotb. (I ' i'mvii Uoureltes and canvas cloth.) Lady Customer: Let mo aeo your lightweight Loucles and etamine suitings. (Is fahown light-weight boucles and etarnino buitings.) Lady Cii3toinur : Lot me see your albatroKs. (Js bhuwri ulhatross). Lady Customer : Have you it ia li»iit tone'{ (Is shosvn a light-Lone albatross.) Lady Customer: Huve you v lightweight, same shade.) (Is li^ht-weight, same shade.) Lai'/ Customer : IJave you this quality in light lr,. ) or j on <ci ? (Is hi owii Bai/ Ie quality in light drab and ponjee.) Lady Customer : Have you it in sweetgum gray? C!fr': : i\o, ma'am ; but wo have th.it «hado in nnu's \ uiling. Lady Cuotoii-ir : I wanted albatrons. I thought, you had got in your new apiing goody. When you do, I wish you would Jet me know, Uood morning.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18860717.2.25
Bibliographic details
Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7119, 17 July 1886, Page 4
Word Count
243SHOPPING EXPERIENCE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7119, 17 July 1886, Page 4
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in