Well Paid for the Ham
-♦ "John, have you charged that ham?" asked a grocer of his clerk a few mornings since. "What hamP" was the question in answer. " The ham that was sold about 10 minutes ago." , / " I did not know that a ham had been sold. I did not sell any." " Well, I did, and I don't remember to whom I sold it. Do you remember ?" " This the first I know of any ham being sold." The grocer thought he had lost the price of the ham. Not so the clerk. He looked over the list of orders and tried to remember the persons who had beeji in the store that morning. Then he charged the ham to everyone of these persons, 17 in all. 11 Sixteen of these will kick," remarked the clerk, " arid the 17th is the man. who got the ham." . . The proprietor raised th«» clerk's, wages and took a drink. Both anxiously watched the result. Of the 17 persons to whom the ham had been, charged, just four did the kicking act 5 .the rest paid their bills without further inquiry, so the grocer got paid 13 times' for the ham. Moral : Housewives^ should care;fully scan their'grocer's and 'butcher's bills. ... _^j_* ■' *■''* ■'-■•" ■ - ■•••'*
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 144, 5 July 1888, Page 3
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206Well Paid for the Ham Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 144, 5 July 1888, Page 3
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