Getting His Money Back.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Getting His Money Back.

By Ike PniMisa, ra rai « Hawketb." A bhrewd merchant named Haffemall, wli<3 does business up on North Lavaca-street, in Auitin, Texas, developed a good scheme the other month. H« owns a "sheep gloding house und shents' furnishing establishment." One morning he called his head olerk 'and book-keeper in and said : 11 Apraham, I solt a pair of ibleef pnttons to a shenteelmans de udder day, nnd I can't remember who it vas. Day vas marked dree dollar und post me dree dollar* and six bits a dozen bairs. Py gracious 1 ef ye dont' find out who bought 'em so re can toharge dein oop, ye lost all de bronts. See ef you can't remember who pought dem, Apraham.' "Veil, Mr. Haffemall, I vm purty aeepy yen you sell dose puttons, but I dink it vaa yon of dem Smitt poys. I vill onguire of it." " No ; I tell you a good schemes, Apraham. Tou sharge dose eleef puttons oop to cfiery regular gusdomer we hat, vot wears such dings, und, don't you see, yen you gif de pill to all dosa vot don't pny doae puttons, dey vill kick lik« Eliiha'a ofl ox; und de man vat don't kick, he tas de man who puys it, und it vas oulal right, und ha teya nottings. In dot vay ye gfct dose tree dollars, und no yon vaa wrong. You see, I vai going to learn you te peesness, Apraham." Abraham grinned at the shrewdness of his boss, and then went and charged that pair of sleeva buttons up to juit fifty-two men, so aa to be sure and find the right one. Haffemall forgot all about it until about the middle of following month, after all (ha bills had been collected. He then went into the offioe and said: '• 0, Aprabam, I forgot about dose sleet puttons; did you got pay for dem yet? You oould ogsblain to dose who kioked dat it vaa a meestako." " Veil, I should smile dat I got some pay for dem vonoa. I soharged 'em oop to fiftytwo gusdomers, und all payt de pill, egsept one man, who swore he nefler yore sheet puitoona in his life, und I told him I had made a leetla meestake, und it vai all right." " Veil, dot vas purty goot, Apraham. Dose ▼as a goot cohemes. Ye vill try it on some more vonoe ; if people pay pills, it vas not •ur fault ; und if de gomblain, ye oan tell 'em it vas a leatla error. 0, ye must pc oop to peesness in de hard times." And he went to wait upon a new customer, while Abraham oharged a pair of boots up to twenty-three men.