" ISN'T IT LOVELY."
A dry goods clerk on Main street was showing a lady some parasols yesterday. This clerk lias a good command of language, and knows how to expatiate on the good qualities and show the best points of' goods. As he picked up a parasol from the counter and opened it, lie struck an attitude of adjniration, and holding it up so that the best light would be had, said—"Now, now, there; isn't it lovely? Look at that silk ! Particularly observe the quality, the finish, the general effect. Feel of it. Pass your hand over it. * No foolishness about this parasol, is there ? " he said, as he handed it orer to the lady $ '** ain't it a beauty P " " Yes," said the lady, stuffing her handkerchief into her mouth, " yes, that's my old one. I just laid it down there." The clerk was immediately seized with a severe attack of quickened conscience, and passed right off the subject of parasols on to the weather. —rKeokuk Constitution.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3040, 12 November 1878, Page 4
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