HOW THEY DID BUSINESS.
A Chicago commercial traveller, having, hired a horse and taken a ride of ten miles through a terrible highway iu Wisconsin to work up a trade with a new dealer, reaclied the place to find the store closed. The proprietor was outside the door with an axe, and his wife was on the inside with an old shot gun. "I repiesent tho wholesale grocery firm of Sugar, Starch «k Co." said the traveller, as he drove up, " Yes," replied the merchant, aa he leaned on his axe. "And I'd like to show you some samples and take your order."" Are you in a hurry?" "Well, no." "Then you had belted hitch to the fence over there and a spell. "What's the rdwNjfcre]" "Nothing very much. The/old ■woman's inside, and I'm out hero. It's been that way for the last three hours; but the climax is coming, She aint got more than enough powder for one more shot, and as soon as she fires that we'll find out who runs this business. If I do, I'll give you ail order; if she does, you. had better get ready to skip; for sh« is determined to go out of the mercantile .business*" -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1519, 26 October 1883, Page 2
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204HOW THEY DID BUSINESS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1519, 26 October 1883, Page 2
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