THEN HE UNDERSTOOD.
“How will you have youi hair cut, sir?” said the talkative barber to the victim in the chair.
“Minus conversational prolixity,” replied the patient. “How’s that, sir?” “With abbreviated or totally eliminated narrations.” “What?” ..“Without effersvescent verbosity.”
“Sir!” “Let even diminutive colloquy be conspicuous by its absence.”
The barber scratched his head thoughtfully a second, and then went over to the proprietor of the shop ana whispered:— “I don’t know whether that man in my chair is mad or a foreigner, but 1 can’t find out what he wants.”
The proprietor went to the customer, and said, politely : “My man don’t seem to understand you, sir. How would you like your hair cut?” “In silence.”
The proprietor gave a withering look at his assistant, who felt so utterly crushed that he never asked the man if he’d buy a bottle of hair restorer.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 705, 7 February 1922, Page 6
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146THEN HE UNDERSTOOD. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 705, 7 February 1922, Page 6
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