THEN THE CUSTOMER SMILED.
» A West-end dealer in stuffed animals, who also keeps a few live creatures for sale, gave hie shopboy permission to sell the stuffed specimens, but told him call his master when a customer asked for any of tho living animals. One day a gentleman called and demanded a monkey. "Any of these?" asked the boy who was in charge. He pointed to the stuffed specimens. "No. I want ia live monkey," answered the customer. The boy stepped to the door of the back shop, and called to his master: "You're wanted, sir!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8808, 21 December 1906, Page 1
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96THEN THE CUSTOMER SMILED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8808, 21 December 1906, Page 1
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