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Show SAW ADVERTISING IN 30NG Concert Committee Balked at Suggestion Sugges-tion Made by the Close-Fisted Coal Dealer. They were getting up a charity concert con-cert in the small provincial town, anil the committee determined to work hard to make a great success of it. The local magnates and tradesmen were called on, and to one of the latter, a coal merchant, whose place was somewhere in the North, an appeal ap-peal was duly made. "Ah'm very sorry," was the coal merchant's mer-chant's reply to the committee's representative, rep-resentative, "but All's stopped sub-scribin' sub-scribin' tae a' these things." "Well, you'll give us an order for an advertisement on the program?" suggested the caller. The coal merchant shook his head. Then a sudden inspiration seized him. "Ah'll tell ye what Ah'l! dae, though," he said. "Ah'll get ma dochter tae sing for y" "Right you are.," said the other. ' What will I put Jier down for?y " 'Keep the Home Fires Buraaiii "Can't be done," declared t) cert man emphatically, folding papers. "If you won't subs7 take jolly good care .you get I advertising on our program.''! Answers. . |