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Show CHECK NEEDED TOUCHING UP Bank Cashier Handled the Subject Diplomatically, but Sensitive Mr. Brushly Was Annoyed. "This check of yours," said tha-large-hearted cashier to Brushly, tha impressionist painter, "is drawn exceedingly ex-ceedingly well, and in composition-seems composition-seems to be pretty nearly perfect; but it lacks background, Mr. Brushly. But for that it would be a work of art. Your foreground is charming, but just a trifle too well, shall we say too-fanciful?" too-fanciful?" "I don't know what you are driving at," growled Brushly. "I suppose you know what you mean, however. What kind of a background would you suggest?" sug-gest?" "Cash!" said the cashier. "A work of art like this, calling for the payment pay-ment of $50, is not wholly convincing with a sketchy little overdraft of $2.90 on deposit to provide the necessary contrasts in light and shade and to give the thing what we might call balance." "Whereupon Brushly, like the self-respecting self-respecting man he was, snapped his-fingers his-fingers under the. impudent fellow's-nose fellow's-nose and transferred his overdraft to the trust company across the street. Judge. |