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Show Found There Was Limit to Customers' Patience they became to the storekeeper what the cruse was to the widow. Eventually Even-tually the swindle got wind and a big rumpus ensued. About a hundred diggers dig-gers assembled and took charge of the store. They weighed the nails, paid full price, chucked them Into the creek, and on a signboard made of casement wood they notified all and sundry : "No more nails." At the time of the rush Into the Palmer gold field, in northern Queensland, Queens-land, Australia, justice was rough but fair, observes the Dunedln (N. Z.) Star, in quoting an incident of the day. The one storekeeper there, when stocking, took up a barrel of horseshoe horse-shoe nails, thinking that they would readily sell to diggers who, in loading their pack horses, eliminated to the last ounce everything of weight that was not eatable. As it chanced, however, how-ever, there was no demand for the nails. Every man who had a horse carried a few in his pocket. After the nails had been on his hands for a while he struck the brilliant idea that he would force sales by refusing to sell any flour or sugar or rice unless the buyer also purchased an equal weight of nails. For a time the men grumbled, but bought and, not needing the nails, put them back in the barrel, so that |