I Old John Bates, an Edinburgh up. jholsterer was renowned for his silence. People who had been his customer* for a generation had, many of them, never heard a word from him, excr-ot "Goodmorning. Five shillings. Tfiank you. Uood-day A patron one day said to John: "What's the best kind of mattress." "Hair," was the reob. The patron, some twenty years later had occasion to buy another mattress' and. SSSS w " at the test kind'was. Cotton," said John. "Cotton!" the I ami —:-.t OHTLn i-u _
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13488, 19 May 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)
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