HARD TO SUIT.
People sometimes have good ground to complain of their grocers, and not unfrequently the grocers have reaßon to cotn--1 plain of unjust criticisms on the part o£ i their customers. One Saturday evening, ! when there was quite a crowd of purchasers in a grocery, a gentleman came in in a blustering mood. " See here," he said to the proprietor, " that ..fancy creamery butter of yours tastes of the firkin." "I don't see how that can be," answered, the grocer, "for I keep that butter in glass jars." "Well," Baid the customor Bharply, '• it tastes of the glass jar, then !"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7181, 16 January 1892, Page 2
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102HARD TO SUIT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7181, 16 January 1892, Page 2
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