The clothier was boasting of the sagacity of his head clerk.
"That feller Jake," he said, "that's the smartest boy in the world. You don't believe it, huh? Listen: I prove it to you. Only yesterday there come in here a poor widow whose husband just had died. She wanted to get some clothes to bury the corpse in.
"And what did Jake do? I tell you: Not only did he sell her the most expensive suit that we had in stock but he got her to take also an extra pair of trousers.
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