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Show AN AWKWARD SITUATION. Stingy people would be glad of a reputation for generosity, -- if they could buy it cheap. It is laughable to see them get bitten in attempting such bargains. A red-faced young man, belonging to an excursion party, called into a Woodward Avenue drug-store [drugstore], in Detroit, and softly asked the soda-fountain boy if he was out of any particular kind of syrup. The boy made an investigation and replied, -- "We are out of sarsaparilla, but--" "That's all right -- all right --you wait a minute," interrupted the young man, and away he went. The boy took the empty reservoir from the fountain and replaced it with a full one, and in about two minutes the young man returned in company with his girl and four other people, evidently all friends. Walking up to the fountain he said, "I'm going to take sarsaparilla in mine, for the doctors all recommend it and if he hasn't any sarsaparilla, I won't take nothing. What do you say?" "Oh, we'll take the same," they replied. The young man, began to smile, and his left eye began to draw down, but what was his horror to see the boy draw off six glasses in succession and push them to the front, where they were eagerly drained of their contents. He tried to give the boy a murderous look of mingled hate and intent, but the lad was too busy to see it. He felt in all his pockets, brought up watch-keys, pennies and peanuts, and finally laid down twenty-seven cents and whispered to the boy, " That takes my pile, and if I ever catch you outside of town I'll lick you. -- Free Press. |