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Show THE MAN WHO CREW. One day last week a Detroit mo chanic was walking down Michij;rtii avenue aud became tavornbly mi preuscd with a p.iir of pnts hanging in front of a cheap clothing store. The price wuh low, the goods seamed all right, and he in;:du up his mind to purchase. "I git you do woid ol Andrew ShackBun dot dost; punts are sliust like iron," said the dealer, "I war rants dem efery dime." After three or four days' wear tho purchaser found the bottom of tho pants crawling towards hie knees. It was a bad case of shrinkage and be got mad and went back to the store and sid: ''You swindled me on these pants! Soo how thoy have shrunk! Tho dealer looked bim oil over, fdt of bis head, pulled on the pants, and finally said: "I shall give you one tousand dollars dol-lars a month if you will travel with "How what?" J "You are shust growing right up al ,1116 rate of two inches a day, and i takes you arounilt the country on ex-, ex-, hibition. Dose pants are shust as lone tm ei'er, but ycu haf rown oudt oil dem." "I don't believe it!" shouted the man, "I am 40 years old, and quit growing long ago!" I "I gif you du word of Andrew jShackijou dot you v.is growing." I "I don't care whose word you give. I siy these nan is have shrunk nearly 1 a foot.' ! "Has de top of dose pants shrunk dom any?" softly asked tbe dealer. "Why, no." "Shouldn't do vaisthundd shrink down shust as queck as dose bottoms nhould shrink up? If it's in de cloth, one part should shrink like de odder, e.h? When I sold you dot elegant pair of pants for tree dollars I don't suppose you vas growing so fast or I shall haf put zum straps on de bottoms." bot-toms." "Well, I don't liko this way ot doing business," said the purchaser, i "Shuat like me. If I sells euch elegant pauts as dozo to a man, and he grows out of dem, it damages my trade. You h -ve damaged me fiye hoouored dollnr hui T h( l a pay cash for raeiu goods, and can make youdis 50 cent tie for o cents." The man walked out to the ourb-stone, ourb-stone, and turning around, shook his 1 fist and said: "You are a liar and a cheat, aud I'll dare you out here !" J "Such dings sink deep into my heart," sighed the dealer os he took down his pipe. "I dinks I sells out (dis peesness aud paddles some vases aroundt. Den when I sells to somebody, some-body, it makes no diilerence how ( muchdey grow." Detroit Free Press. |