The Inh They Used.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17

The Inh They Used.

Half a-dozen commercial travellers were one evening gathered at a certain country inn. Each one in turn was endeavouring to outshine his neighbours as-regards the extent of the enterprise he represented. “Why.” said one. concluding a description of his firm, compared with which all the co-operative stores combined were but coffee-st a Ils—“why in my business they spend three hundred pound- a year in ink. merely to book the order- in the count itig-liouse.” “Oh. indeed.” said the man that dealt in silk. “That’s a men* nothing to what hiy firm -pends in ink. Only last year it saved a matter of three thousand pounds in the expenses of the lountingJiouse. merely by omitting to cros< the t’s and dot the i’s.”