SHAVE, SIR?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 147, 18 February 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHAVE, SIR?

He was bald-headed. with a fourdays' growth of hoard 011 h> chin, and ho walked into the harbor's shop and sat in the chair of tho Inquisitor. "Shave, sir?" "No," growlod tho man in tlie char. "Moa-ure mo for a pair of boots." "This isn't a bootmaker's s!iop, sir. Isn't it " Xo. s;r: it's a harbor's." " What kind of work do you do?" "Shave men and cut ther hair. sir. "Do you think a m;:n w'th 110 hair would ci.lllo for a hair cut." " Xo. sir." Do I look like a lunatic?" A negative shake of tho head from tho barber. "Well. nrc-uining I'm ano. but hald-hoadod. what would you naturally .suopose 1 came for." •• |*\ir a sieve." " Then why old vou ask mo :f 1 wantod a '•hove:'' Why di.in't you go to work at once. It some of vou harbors would cult vato tho habit of using your eves, vou'd increase vour profits. ' And tlif b.arbi-r wn« so astonvhed that ho forgot to ask tho man if ho wanted any oil on his hair when the operat'on was performed.