GETTING HIS MONEY BACK.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5213, 1 October 1885, Page 3

GETTING HIS MONEY BACK.

By Ike Phiikinb, in the ''Hawkeye. 1 '

A shrewd merchant named Haffemall, who does business up on North Laraca «treet, in Austin. Texas, developed a good Scheme the other month. Be owns a •• sheep gloding house und shents' furnishing establishment." One morning he called his head clerk and book-keeper in and said: .*■%*» " Apraharo, I solt a pair of shleef pnttons to a shentleelmans de udder day, und I can't remember who it ras. Day ras marked dree dollars und six bits a dozen hairs. Py gracious; ef ye don't find out who bought 'em ao tc can gcbarge dem oop, re lost all de brofit. See ef you can't remember who pought dem, Apraham." "Veil, Mr Haffemall, I vas purty seepy yen you sell dose puttons, but I dink it tab ton of dem Smitt poys. I Till onguire " 2?o; I tell you a good schemes, Apraham. You sharge dose sleef puttons to effery regular gusdomer we faaf, Tot wears inch dings, nnd, don't you see, Ten you gif de pill to all dose Tot don't puy dose puttons, dey Till kick like Elisha's off ox; and de man vat tbs oulal right, und he •eys nottings. In dot Tay ye get dose tree dollars, und no Ton vaa wrong. You see, I Tag going to learn you te peesness, Apraham." m ...... , Abraham grinned at the shrewdaess of his boss, and then went and charged that pair of sleeve buttons up to just fifty-two men, so ns to be sure and find the right one. Haffemall forgot all about it until about the middle of the following month after all tbebiHs had been collected. He then went into the office and said: " 0, Apraham, I forgot about hose sleef puttons; did you got pay for dem -yet P You could ogsblain to dose who kicked dat it Vac a meestake." "Yell. I should smile datl got some pay for dem Tonce. I scharged 'em oop to fifty-two gusdomers, and all payfc de pill, egsept one man, who swore be neflPer ▼ore sbeef puttoons in his life, und I told him I had made a lSetle meestake, und it vas all right!" "Veil, dot ras purty goot, Aprabam. Dose vas a goot schemes. Ye will try it on some more vonce; if people pay pills, it vas not our fault; und if he gomblaih, Te can tell him it was a little error. O, ye must, pc oop to peesness in de hard times." , And he went to wait upon a new customer, while Abraham charged a pair of boots up to twenty-three men.