Christmas Presents.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 447, 19 February 1890, Page 5

Christmas Presents.

‘The quaintest Christmas customer I had,’ said the Lisbon-street dry-goods man, ‘ was an old lady who walked seven miles into town to buy herself a Christmas present.’ » “I’ve been to the meetin 5 house and seen three trees picked in the last three years and not got a thing,” said she, “ but this year I’m bound to have a present.” . ‘ She hunted the store over and bought herself a necktie. She asked me to put it in a nice box and write her name on it, and I did so. “‘There!’she said, ‘l’mgoin’ to send that down to the meetin’ house to be put on the tree for me. I guess they’ll be surprised when they see me gebtin’ subhin’! ‘The day before Christmas,’ the drygoods man continued, ‘a man from the suburbs wandered into the store in a dazed way and said he wanted to buy a Christmas present for his wife, but he declared he didn’t know what to get. Our clerks did their best to help him, and he spent half an hour looking over our stock. ‘“Well this is the toughest job that I ever got hold on,” he said. ‘ I kinder want to please the old woman and can’t make up my mind what’U please her moat.” ‘ After looking about a little longer he said he guessed he would give her some cotten cloth and let her make him up some shirts.' ' r