Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — A Funny Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Funny Mistake.

The other day an old country woman drove np in her wagon to a well-known shoe store, and entering the same, thus accosted the urbane proprietor: “I want to see them ’ere ‘Ninety-five’ Rubber Boots advertised in all the papers. Tm thinking they must be cheap at 95 cents, and I’ll just take home two pair to the old man.” It was difficult at first to convinoe the old lady that the figures “95” referred to quality, not price, and that the boots were 95 per cent sterling pure; but when she was shown a sample cut open to display the interior, and saw that the soles were half an inch thick of solid rubber, and the upper and legs were double thick, she was contented to pay, not 95 cents, bnt several dollars, for a single pair of the “Candee 95 Per Cent Boots,” believing they would be the cheapest in the end for the “old man.” The storekeeper punched the date of sale in the legs so as to fir. the expiration of the three months’ warrant, and assured her in case they did not stand the warrant, he would give a new pair free of charge.