THE "HEY?" FEVER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 314, 22 July 1879, Page 3

THE "HEY?" FEVER.

Young people, especially, beware of this disease. In Detroit lives one of those men who, even if he understands perfect y well an enquiry addressed to him, invariably replies '■ Hey ?" and the enquiry must be submitted again. The world has tens of thousands of these " heys?" but until the

other day this Detroiter was the worst of all. Along came a stranger the other evening who might and might not have known of this man's eccentrecity. Entering the store, he remarked: ." I want fonr pounds of sugar." " Hoy ?" replied the other. . " I said I wanted a sausage stuffer," continued the man. " What—hey ?" " I asked if you had pinkies in vinegar," coolly remarked*the stranger. " Hey ? " "I—want—a—gallon—of—turpentine," slowly replied the stranger, " Bless your soul! biit I don't keep it," suddenly exclaimed the citizen. "I didn't suppose you did." "Hey?" ' ".'. "I said I'd take some liver pills in place Of it." ■:; /-••■ :■■•■-:■■■ - '■■ ■■■■>■ ■ ■>:'• No doubt the dealer had heard every single word of the entire, coversation, and he didn't like it very well, either ; but habitprevailed, and again he called out," Hey ? " - " Calico I calico 1 " shouted the stranger. " I've asked you a dozen times over if you had any good eight-cent, calico ? " " No, Bir—-no, sir—no, sir ! "was the indignant answer. - " Hey ? "called the stranger, his hand to his ear. ' , [■■■■. ;■ • The citizen looked around for the fourpound weight, but-when he found it there was nothing to throw atJ