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Show KNEW HOW TO MAKE IT FIT Backwoodsman Little Troubled by ' Fact That Cap He Purchased , Was Too Small. ; Early in the autumn a man from the backwoods wandered into a Syracuse . gents' furnishing store. Here the shiny winter caps caught his eye. . After gazing at these a long time he said: "How much you want for one o' them caps?" "One dollar," rejoined the clerk. "Try this one on, sir." But this proved to be a size or so too small, sitting upon the woodchop-per's woodchop-per's head like a peanut on a barrel. "Here's y'r dollar, mister. I'll take this cap." "But the ca)'s too small," declared the amazed clerk, pushing back the proffered dollar. "Walt till you try" "Oh, I'll fix this so's it'll fit," was the backwoodsman's final exchange before be-fore starting off witli his purchase. "When I git home all I'll have to do Is to slit its hack up with a knife, lace It with a shoestring, and everything'Il be all hunkydory!" Rehoboth Sunday Herald. |