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Show The Clerk Spoke English. The ambitious attempts of the foreign for-eign tradesman to speak English to his American customers have been described de-scribed by Mrs. Gillespie in "A Book of Remembrance" as part of her amusing experiences in Berlin. Supplies Sup-plies of linen were to be brought, and we went again to the shop where we had essayed to speak German and the shopman had answered us with effort ef-fort in English. We found him affable af-fable as before, and although we told him in German that we wanted to look at towels, he brought out some and said: "I have found it very difficult to become such a towel as this." We agreed with him, and then asked for some other articles, which he was obliged to look for in some distant part of the store; he bowed and said: "Execute me in an instant." My companion, com-panion, Looli, bought twelve dozen children's napkins, and the -young man said: "Have you, then, so many young sisters and brothers?" Youth's Companion. |
