Curious Reward
Good fortune comes to us in curious ways sometimes. Here is a true. story of how it came to a certain hairdresser. One day when he was particularly busy a soldier rushed into his. shop. He said that he had no money and unless he returned to his camp by a certain time he would be severely punished. The hairdresser gave him a pound. The soldier was grateful and pulled out of his pocket a crumpled piece of paper. "This is all I have," he said, "in the: way of payment. It is a recipe for blacking which I make for my officers. They find it very good. Perhaps you will also." The hairdresser took the recipe end soon gave up cutting hair for
making blacking. It was so good that it became world-famous, and in a very short time the man who had shown kindness to a stranger was a wealthy manufacturer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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155Curious Reward New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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