PAT AND THE SHOPKEEPER.
An Irishman was one day standing with hia hook under his arm-at a shop window in Glasgow. The shopkeeper observing him from the door, accosts him thus “Well, Pat, what do you want in my line to-day ?” “ What you have not to give me,” was the rejoinder. “ I’ll wager a pound I have what you want,” returned the former. Pat pulling out a pound from Ids rags, replied. “ it’s done ; I want a sheath for my hook.” To poor Pat’s astonishp!iqgt,,the sheath was produced, so away he went to .the harvest, leaving the pound with the shopkeeper. But, not to he beat, he called on him bn his wiy home, and in the presence of a witness addressed him thus,:—“ Well, Mr—, what will you take for as much tobacco as will reach from my one ear to the other?” “ A penny," was the reply. This being agreed to the grocer out off about a foot of tobacco, and was about to apply its extremeties to Pat’s cars, when the latter, pointing his finger upwards, exultingly exclaimed, “ There is one ear, hut the other is nailed to the back of the gaol door in Dublin.” The grocer was obliged to give his antagonist about forty pounds of tobacco before ho could get quit of him.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 756, 13 October 1876, Page 3
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