GOOD CREDIT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16905, 2 December 1922, Page 11

GOOD CREDIT.

* (By WALT MASON.) To have good credit in your town ! There is no worthier renown ; to have the merchant princes say, “ That delegate is splendid pay!" When you have Avon so high a fame you are a winner in : life's game, and when you’ve found ! your last repose, from 12 to 1 the | stores Avill close Good credit has its drawbacks, too; I have discovered quite a few. Now all our merchant princes know I pay up promptly as I go and when I drift into their stores they and their clerks are simply bores ; they Avant to sell me all they have, from anvils down to beeswax salve. They liate to 6ee me get away; they they want to sell me bales of hay. and suits of clothes and pairs of shoes, and stovepipe hats and liquid glues. They want to shoAv cane-seated chairs, stuffed crocodiles and pickled pears. They’ve just received a shipment fine o v gherkins in imported brine. They grab my coat tails when I’d go and yank and pull me to and fro. to show me corn beef in ai pail and tripe and prunes and shredded Avhale. They grab • my sideboards in their haste to show jme pots of rancid paste. At last, when haply 1 escape, my form is pulljed all out of shape, my coat is split, my collar spoiled, my temper and my whiskers soiled.