Show THE WRONG MAN the ile terrible terrible mistake of a disturbed householder it was wash day at the house of the ier fer eusona the clothes had been in soak tor for more than an ail hour lour the laundry lady in the basement camo up stairs to report that the soap soup which had been ordered early that morning had not come yet lycurgus 11 mid mrs ferguson you w will III hae have to go to the grocery and get it we cant wait any longer mr ferguson went M ent to the grocers choso whoso wh ose place place of business was seven blocks away how ilow does it happen he demanded fiercely that the soap my wife ordered three hours ago come yet yett she ordered a lot of bluff stuff at the same sam time said one of the clerks a u d we 1 I tied 0 the order as quick as we could the boy with the delivery wagon lson is on the way there now sir mr ferguson went back home mrs erguson rr guson rt ported reported that the groc grocers ers boy hil hi come a and oil had bad delivered every everything till ng she bool ordered except the soap it had been A overlooked somehow mr Ferg fergnson ubon boiling over with wrath was about to start on another trip for that coay soa when the laundry lady made her appearance pe arance again theres a man at the back door 1 she said with an order book in his hand I 1 think its the grocer himself then mr ferguson went to the back door you youve ive come your yourself belf this time hae have you he shouted yes sir air said the man got that soap no sir but yo you ha venti tl do you know sir that wo we have been waiting all this morning for a few bars of cheap common yellow soap sir air do you know that ive had to make a trip to your store on purpose for that soap my myself self and then did not get it what kind of way is that for ft A man to do bustnes ne we could have waited an hour or two longer for the lettuce and arid the cocoa nut and the strawberries and the can of tomatoes but and there any particular hurry for the broom and the scrubbing brush and the peck of potatoes s but we wanted that soap the girls been waiting for it tor for two or three hours but V I 1 and a whole washing is going to all ruin 1 n for want of it I 1 wont stand you 0 u cant play a trick like that on me a second time weve only been in this hou house so two weeks and we have lave got all our gr groceries oce ries from you we have ordered something every time the boy has come around we leave lave spent more than twenty dollars at your store and were w ere not going to spend any more youve got every cent out of us youre going to get we shall try some other grocer you 1 on will find it pay to will you let me say just a word it wont do any good sir my mind la is madeep made up what do you want to say im the iceman chicago tribune |