Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — A Dubious Customer. [ARTICLE]

A Dubious Customer.

An old woman, needing some silk and some tape, sent her husband for them. The silk was shown, but the buyer thought the price too great. The clerk explained that all silk goods were dear, owing to some disease at this time prevalent among the silk worms. The tape was next examined, and ihe husband thought that a little stiff as to price. “And ind&de, sir, is their likewoise a ' dezoso a-prevnilin’ among the tapeworms?” — United States Ornette. Thibe is a miserable effort to imitate English social ways and customs among the snobs of New York.