HE WAS RESOURCEFUL.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 330, 14 July 1914, Page 6

HE WAS RESOURCEFUL.

A resourceful canvasser is a hard man to get the better of him. Witness the experience of the man, of whom a lawyer told in a relent after-dinner speech. On the way to tlio railway station one morning he was halted by a book canvasser, and being a great reader, he bought a book for a sovereign.

"It will be something to read on the train," he thought, as he gave his name and accepted the receipt.

It was a dull book, however, and the purchaser left it at his office; but on his return home that evening there was another copy on the library table, and his wife explained that the canvasser had lei't it, and had collected a sovereign, saying that such were hor husband's ordors.

Hubby was wild with rage. "If I had that chap hero," he growled, "I'd fell him, the dastardly hound!" "Why, there he goes now!" cried his wife. "Look—hurrying down the street towards the station!" Tho victim rushed up stairs for his coat and shoes; but while bo was dressing a neighbour camo along in a motor car. He halted tho neighbour irom the window.

"Hurry down to the station and hold up that chap for mo!" he cried. "That chap with the books! Soe?" "Certainly," said the obliging neighbour; and lie put on full speed unc; soon reached the canvasser.

"That man up there- on tho lvil wants you," ho said. "Oh, yes," said the other, as the train steamed in. "That's Mi-. Smith. Ho wants one of my books. Do you mind taking it for him? It's twenty shillings, please." Then tho train steamed off, with the canvasser in it, and the motorist sped back to Smith again. "Here's your book," he shouted, holding it aloft, "and you owe me a sov."