POOR AGENT

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)

POOR AGENT

* It was his first day as a sewing-mach-ine agent, and, weary and despondent, ■ho was just beginning to Jose faith in bis powers cf persuasion, and to wonder if any fellow did ever sell a machine, when ho knocked at Mrs. Kindly’s door. “Pardon mo, madam,” ho began rather timidly, “do you need a sowingmachine?” “ Yes, sir !” beamed Hie lady; “I need one badly “Ah!” Tho ray of hope that shot aero;? the features of the weary one would have touched the heart of a bronzed Nero. “Thou, madam, allow mo to bring,to your notice the virtues of ‘Never-Tired’ machine. Absolutely the best and cheapest machine in the market. It ” “But, my dear sir,” protested the good woman, “I have a machine!” “AVhat?” gasped the agent. “I understood you to say you needed one!”

“ So I do ! ” came the soft answer that turnctli away wrath. “If I did not need one, I would .sell it at once!’’

Then sho slowly closed tho door, and that night there was a vacancy in the “Ne ver-Ti rcd ” offico.