THANK YOU

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 September 1907, Page 37

THANK YOU

•Several winters ago, a woman was coming out 1 from some 1 public building when the heavy door swung back and made egress -somewhat difficult., A little street urphin sprang to the rescue; and as he held- open the door she said, ' Thank you, 1 and passed on. ' D'ye hear that ? ' said. the boy to a companion. " No ; what ? ' x ' Why, that lady said " Thank ye " to the likes o' :■* me.'. Amused at the conversation, which she could not help overhearing, the lady turned round and said to'the bpy

'It always pays to be polite, my boy- ; remember that.' ' '■ • ,' Years passed away ; and last December, when doing her Christmas • shopping, this same . lady received an exceptional co.urtesy from a shop assistant, whom she thanked. , _ ' Pardon me, madam, but you gave me my first lesson in politeness a few years ago.' £ The lady looked at him in amazement, while he related the little forgotten incident, and told her that that simple ' Thank you awakened his first ambition to be something in the world. He went the next morning and applied for a situation as office boy in the establishment where he was now an honored and trusted clerk. Only two words, dropped into the treasury of a street conversation, but they yielded returns of a certain kind more satisfactory than investments, stocks, and bomls. . *