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Show H A BARREL OF APPLES. H But the Qroceryman Would Not Hear H the Tale. H "I wish to speak to you about that H barrel ot apples I bought day before H yesterday," said the kind-looking old H gentleman. H "You'll have to see tho clerk who I sold them to you," the grocer an H gwered, very snappishly. "I don'1 H know anything about them." H "Bht I desire tp say to you ptson ally that" "Now, look here; I can't be both LU cred over every pound of sugar or I B pint of elder or barrel of apples that ' P my clerks sell. Just see the young H man who waited on you. He's around H somewhere." H "Yes, I sec him there at the back H end ot the store; but I really felt that H H was my duty to tell you about It I You see " "If I stood around llFtcnlng to every-H every-H body who comes Into this store to I complain that they've bought some-I some-I thing they didn't want, or that they've H been slighted, as they think, by my I clerks, I wouldn't havo time for any-I any-I thing else. You'll please excuse me. The clerk will hear 'your complaint, I and It there Is anything wo can do you may be sure it will be done.. Hut wo can't toko back a barrel ot apples I after they havo been out of the store I two or three days. You can surely I see that if wo did business In such a I way " I "My dear sir, I don't want you to take back the apples, and I haven't I any complaint to make. I merely I wished to tell you that I found the I applet at the bottom ot the barrel to I be Just as big as the ones at the top. I bellote in the principle of glv-I glv-I lng praise wherever It may be fairly given, and I stepped In to order an-I an-I other barrel, but I see you're too busy to bother with such a trifle this morn- lng, so I will ' be going." Chicago Record-Herald. |