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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2598, 5 May 1877, Page 4

The Caseful Man.—Soon after noon jesterday, a stranger entered a Wood-ward-avenue hardware store and asked if they kept shingle nails there. Being in/ormedtbat they had a dozen kegs on hand he further inquired: " Are they genuine shingle nails,: or- only imitations ?" They are shingle nails, -of course. " Let me see them." A handful was' placed oh the counter before him, and he took several nails to the door,: where he' could get a stronger light. After scanning them thoroughly he tested two or three between his teeth, tried to*bend them between his_ fingers, and;said:" Well, they seem to be all right, and I'll take five pounds. I don't want to appear captious, but I bought some, shingle nails along here about a month ago, carried them home, and what do you suppose they, turned but to be ? " ;" Six-pennys p " answered the clerk. " No, sir. They were shoe pegs, sir ! " " That was strange," mused the clerk. "And another time, when I ordered shingle nails," continued the stranger, " the clerk put up four stove handles, three nutmeg graters, and a coffee mill. Can I build a cow-shed.out of coffee mills P.Can :I; shingle a barn: with stove handles ? Can I clap-board a house with nutmeg graters ? " " Curious mistake, that," said the clerk. "And another time, when I asked for shingle nails, they put me up four corn poppers aad a match safe. 'These things have sunk deep into my soul, and you musn't blame me for seeming particular. Now, these are nails, are they ? " '• Of course." " Shingle nails P " " Yes, sir." " Just write on this card, and give _me your name, the name of the firm, the number of this store, and the date of the month. I don't want to make trouble, butif'ifind; when I get home that you have put me. up bath-brick and harness straps in the place of shingle nails, I'll come back here and make it. warm for you 1 "—Detroit Free Press. Br Theie Feuits.—" Handsome is that handsome, does," quoted a Chicago man to his wife. "Yes," rejoined she, in a winning tone, as she held: out her hand, "for instance, a husband who is always ready to hand some money to his wife." .

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