KNEW HIS BUSINESS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 167, 20 April 1916, Page 4

KNEW HIS BUSINESS.

A brisk individual with the accumulated look of twenty winters of married life entered a hardware shop and, without waiting for preliminaries asked: — "Do you keep hammers here?" "That is our speciality, sir." "Put me down for a dozen. How about screwdrivers?" "Our great feature. Patent reversible or plain edge?" "Give me a dozen, of each; If you have any other varieties I'll take 'em, too. How about gimlets?' "You are now mentioning out pet product. All styles.'' "(Jive me all styles—long, short, medium, thick, thin, from the size of a needle to a pickaxe Saws?" "Of every description." "I'll take 'em—say half-a-dozen or so—cross-cut, plain, round, and square." "It's down, sir. Can I interest you in nails?" "You can indeed. I'll take some of all that you have, put up in separate packages; also tacks, brads, screws, rivets, staples—everything. And 1 want hook.--, every hook you have, big and little. Also " "Pardon mr, air," he said. "You seem like a sensible person. Unless yon are opening up n business, I am al a loss to understand your requirements.''

"It is perfectly simple, sir," said iln' brisk person. "I have been married for twenty-one year.-, and not once since the ceremony have I bee.i able lo locate a single implement w 1 en I wauled to put up a calendar or do any other necessary thing about the house, and Hie nexl lime there is in -«-• | of anything done I am going, so tar as human foresight, ran provide for it. to have Ihe means in-