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Show The Way it Goes Down in Oklahoma the other day a man went into a store to buy a s;.w. He saw the kind he wanted . and asked the price. It was $1.65, the deabr said. "G od gracious," said the man, 'I can get the same thing from Sears, Roebuck & Co. for $1.35." "That's less than it cost me, " said the dealer. "But I'll sell it on the same terms as the mail order houses just the same. "All right," said the customer "You can send it along and charge it to my account." "Not on your life," the dealer replied, re-plied, "No charge accounts. You can't do business with the mail order houte that way. Bork over the cash." The customer complied. "Now 2 cents for postage and 5 cents for money order." "What-" "Certainly, you have to send a letter and a money order to a mail order house, you know." The customer, inwardly raving, kept to his agreement and paid the nickle. "Now 25 cents expressage. " "YVell I'll be," he said, but paid it saying, "Now hnd ms that saw anj j I'll tak it home myself and be rid of ! this foolery." "Hand ic to you? Where do you think you are? You are in Oklahoma I and and I'm in Chicago, and you'll have I to wait two weeks for that saw." I Whereupon the deit-r h ing the saw I on a peg ind put the money in his casn drawer. 'That makes $1.67." he said. "Ii 1 has cost you 2 cents more i.nd taken you two weeks longer to get it than if yoa hid paid my price in the first place." Square Dealer. |