NOT MUCH OF A LOSS.
A young lady went to a drug store on Monday, located not a mile from the market house, and had a prescription made up. • 'How much ?' inquired the lady. 'Eifty cents,', said the clerk. 'But I have' only forty-five cents with me,' replied the customer,- 'can't. you let me have it for that?'
.' No, ma'am,' said the clerk j 'but you can pay me the five cents when you ■ come again.' . 'But suppose I were to die?' said the= lady, jocularly. ' Well, it wouldn't be a very great loss,' was .the smiling response. > And immediately the smiling clerk gathered from the indignant flash on the lady's face that he had been misunderstood, and before he could assure her that it was the little balance and not her that would be no great loss, she had bounced out at a; g? n« you pleuso gait, and was.beyond tls sound of his voice, ■■•"-,"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3069, 28 April 1881, Page 4
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156NOT MUCH OF A LOSS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3069, 28 April 1881, Page 4
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