| Show SUE KEPT THE STOCKINGS THE MERCHANT TUB TO ASK abit volt BOU hla HIS OWN PROPERTY A merchant of this ibis city tells tella a good joke on himself and it Is no wonder be has let lei a lapso lapse ol of time roll round before telling it one day a young lady came late inlo the toro store to buy a pair of slippers the young lady bad on heavy woollen stockings and the pair of slippers she ho desired would not go on by just about the skin of your tooth teeth op the merchant mor chant suggested that with cotton stocking the slippers would perhaps go on all right sue she readily assented and ila k oil it if he be had bad a any uy ile he brought her a pair and she immediately proceeded to exchange cotton for woollen goods the merchant found it 11 convenient at that moment to arrange some shelves in a distant part of tho the store stora until the young lady announced i they nt lit just to perfection t she showell him the tha dalzy foot encased in a pair of no aa and said she would take them she removed the slippers ippert si but not the stockings and paying for the former tripped morally out leaving tho the merchant too embarrassed to call her attention to the stockings lent tor for the occasion and he wont want to his bl books and r charged barged profit lt and loss with 25 23 cent mt ml pleasant pyramid |
