TALKING BUSINESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 32, 7 January 1884, Page 2

TALKING BUSINESS.

-•• ■*' I want to buy a largo line of groceries for ray ranch," said a Mariu county dairyman to an affable young clerk m a big wholesale house on Front streel, the other day. " Certainly," replied the clerk, continuing. "What' lovely weather we are having ! October is generally so rich m sunsets and golden days!" "Weather and sunsets be blowed!" responded the -rancher, " how much is flour worth ? Fldur, my dear sir] Certainly. Flour is flour these days. Who do you think ' r will be the next President V " President to blazes ! how much are bacon sides?" "A shade lower to-day, I 1 think. The trouble between "France 'i and China promises to be quite serious : don't it?" "What m thunder do I 1 care about China and France 1 What are you quoting oil cake meal at? "Want some for the cows." "We don't keep it. Are you going to see the 1 Ministrels to-night? They have one very funny act, m which Bill Emerson tumltles through a"' " D n the Minstiels ! What are you paying for 1 California cheese 1" "O, yes, we buy largely/ Send us a sample. Did you see the last number of Harper's ' Weekly V And at this point patience ceased to be a virtue, and" the gentleman from Marin county roared : " To the' infernal regions with Harper's Weekly, the next President, the weather and Emerson's Minstrels, your' ' glorious October weather and your sunsets. I came m here to talk ' business' and to leave an order for the whole 1 winter supplies]" leaving the astonished clerk wondeiing what had struck , him, the M.C. man bolted out of fche establishment and three doors lower down got his orders filled m ten minutes by a man who knew how to talk business. And this is no exaggerated picture either.