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Show NOT MUCH OF A LOSS. -A young lady went to a drug-store Monday, located not a hundred miles from the market-house, and had a prescription made up. <br><br> "How much?" inquired the lady. <br><br> "Fifty cents," said the clerk. <br><br> "But I have only forty-five cents with me," replied the customer ; "can't you let me have it for that?" <br><br> "No ma'am," said the clerk, but you can pay me the five cents when you come in again." <br><br> "But suppose I were to die?" said the lady jocularly. <br><br> "Well, it wouldn't be a very great loss," was the smiling response. <br><br> And immediately the innocent clerk gathered from the indignant flash on the lady's face, that he had been misunderstood, and before he could assure her that it was the little balance and not her that would be no great loss, she had bounced out at go-as-you-please gait, and was beyond the sound of his voice. - Cleveland Sentinel. |