Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-09 | Page 6 | Joke That Failed Twice

joke that fa led tw ce miss adelbert had returned from a vacation spent at a tiny village on the maine coast in recounting her experiences she talked somewhat for the benefit of a cousin a quiet per son who was visiting her city relative for the first time in many years there was just one store in the place said miss adelbert and they kept everything that Is everything they had to keep one day I 1 went to buy some soap and just on a venture I 1 asked the clerk they had browning he stared at me a second then went off and looked under the counters and on the shelves presently he came back and said no miss we ain t got none we got blacking an we got bluin an we got whiting but we ain t got a bit browning in the store miss adelbert had to make several protests to assure her audience that this really happened finally the cousin asked gravely but cousin bert why you say varnish in the first place youth s companion