Show stephen girards tactics A man who bad just set up in the hardware business and who had been a clerk where girard had traded applied to him for a share of his patronage girard bought of him and when he brought in ahn bill found fault and marked down the prices cask for nails said was offered for so and charged so and so and you must take it off I cannal do it said the merchant you must do it said girard I cannot and will not said the young merchant girard bolted out of the door apparently parent ly in a rage and soon after sent a check for the whole bill the young man began to relent and gay to himself perhaps he wot offered them at that price but ita all over now I am sorry I did not reduce the bill and get it out of him on something else his trade would have been worth a good deal to me by and by girard came again and gave him another job the young man was very courteous and said I am almost sorry I did not re duce your former bill a butir raid girard had you done it I would never trade with you again I meant to see if you had cheated me |