A Profitable Suggestion.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 372, 29 May 1889, Page 3

A Profitable Suggestion.

In a town in Lower Canada, the locale of which, for obvious reasons, cannot be given, bbere lived and moved a very thriving business firm, whom we shall designate as McPherson and Parbleu— the former Scotch and Presbyterian, the latter French and Catholic. That the profits of the firm should not be diminished by a too rigid observance of the holy days of the church or the holidays of the separate brethren, it was understood between them that they were to be open for business six days in the week. Thus it happened on holy days Monsieur Parbleu fervently attended the parish church, while his partner looked after the 'eiller,' Then on Dominion and Thanksgiving Days the son of the heather attended kirk, and listened with rapt attention to the cheerful I seventeenthly of the minister, while Monsieur Parbleu carefully gathered in the shekels. It came about on one of these latter clays, just previous to Mr M'Pherson's going to church, he was speaking to his partner at the door of their store, when a witty descendant of the tribe of Benjamin, who was passing, took in the situation at a glance, and said : — ' Gentlemen, take me into the firm, and you can keep open every clay in the year.'—' Harper's Magazine.'