SMART AUCKLAND GIRLS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1063, 15 April 1873, Page 3

SMART AUCKLAND GIRLS.

" Snyder," in the Weekly Herald says:—As touching the giving of short measure —I had an amusing little narrative from'" A. pretty young girl with •a sewing machine"" only the other day. machine needlewoman uses, she informed me, from between twenty •and thirty reels of thread in a week, and she always purchases those " warranted three hundred yards." Now it came to pass in an idle hour, she thought she would engage her attention by ascertaining whether one of these reals of thread did really run out the warranted measure, when much to her surprise and greatly to her indignation the measurement instead of turning •'3OO yards only sfeowed 180 yards. This pretty young ?girl with a sewing machine, with very much of her native mildness taken out of her by the discovery, having donned her bat and pinned on several braids of chignon, walked off to the draper with •whom she had been accustomed to trade and explained to him the genteel swindle she had been subjected to. The shopkeeper laughed such a hearty laugh as was quite delightful to listen to.. He rubbed his hands, he chuckled, he sat sideways on the counter and got out an immense amount of laughing. "One hundred and eighty yards 1" he exclaimed. " Why that's just thirty more yards than I should have given the maker credit for. Now then, ray dear," contined the storekeeper," what can I serve you with this morning P" The young lady did not want serving. She walked out of the shop and into a friend's house who drew up a bill for £l los against the shopkeeper. Then she got a summons for the amount and the bailiff did his duty by Berving it. i Two hours afterwards the young aeamsI tress had paid into her hands the sum j of thirty.seven shillings, being exactly the amount of her claim with costs r added. Then I dare say the shopkeeper had another laugh, but it would

be on. the wrong Bide of the face this time.

Another young damsel advertises in the Ngaruawahia Times in a Btyle which has at least the merit of novelty: —"To the Single Young Men of Ngaruawahia.'—A single young lady begs respectfully to inform the single young men of Ngaruawahia that if any of those young men build her a neat little cottage, she will be most happy to set up a washing establishment on the latest and most improved principles. Each young man must bring and take away his own clothes, and also supply his own soap and soda. v ' She has a keen eye to business, for at the end of her neatly-worded invitation is the notification, " Payments to be made in advance." In the cause of cleanliness may she do well and prosper.

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