Show j 1 A MAN OF HIS WORD Ho Promised to Send Forty Men Around and Kept the Promise It was a boiling hot day in August and a St Louis clothier was mopping his brow at the door when an acquaintance observed You seem to be taking it hard My soul but I vhas oaferpowered und dun for I vhas proke in two in der middle Heat affect you that way Heat Who said heat I can shtand fifty degrees more of dot No it vhas someting else I find a man who keeps his word wid me How was it Vhell dis morning der mate of a shteamboat comes in here to buy clothing cloth-ing He vhas a werry honest looking man und he says he can pring forty deckhands to my place I says if dot vhas so I like to gif him a suit of clothes Rather risky I COh no I fix him like dis I bundle up dot suit und leaf him next door If I forty mens corns and inauire for cloth ing der suit vhas his If not he doan get him He has shunt gone avhay mit der snit But you are a long way ahead if you sold to forty men I doan sell nottings to a single man How you suppose I vhhs tooken in It vhas a great game Ash dot 18 suit he took avhay only cost me 425 I can almost al-most laugh aboudt it myself Hero is how she vhas One man after another comes in looks about und says t Good day Say I vhas going down to Florida dis week und I like to take a fur trimmed oafercoat along Show me sometings for about twenty dollar Efery man said dot same thing und vhen der last one vhas gone oudt und I vhas lying on der floor in a dead faint dot mate comes in und says Vhell I take dot suit along If you doant half some fur trimmed oafercoata for my boys I haf to go semewhere else I vhas a man who always keeps my word wordUnd Und dots what ails me he gasped as he fell upon a stool at the door Fur trimmed oafercoats vhen it vhas 105 degrees in myice boxNew York Sun |