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Show COULD NOT AFFORD TO ADVERTISE Jud Shaw sold shoes, and sealing wnx, and lamps, llshpolos nnd gluo, tobacco, candles, gum, and tacks slickers and sardines, too; dry goods and hams woro In his lino; ho dealt In peas and beans! ho kept tho general gen-eral store, In lino sold overalls nnd Jeans; but Jud, somehow, ho wasn't w Iso "Couldn't .afford to advertise" Not that ho harbored any grudgo against his homo town sheet; ho was, as anyono might Judgo, a kind-ly kind-ly man to meet; his customors ho treated fair, and yet ho prospered not; his goods woro honest, one would swear ho simply was forgot; for Jud somehow, ho wasn't wiso "Couldn't afford to advertise." Mall order firms from out of town, much wiser In tholr day paid liberally for tholr renown, and gathered gath-ered ln tho hay, their catalogues wont overywhoro; they advertised for trade; tholr namo wont forth with trumpots blaro, and, ah I the coin thoy mado; couldn't afford, they woro bo wiso, couldn't afford NOT to ad-vortlso. ad-vortlso. Now, Jud's stuff It was Just as good; his prices wero tho samo; tho loss was ours; he simply would not spreud abroad his namo; though townfolks might havo much preferred prefer-red In tholr homo mart to buy, of Jud Shaw they had novor hoard you know tho reason why, for Jud "omehow, ho wasn't wise "Couldn't afford to advertlso!" Kxchango. |