Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — The Late Leopold Morse's Little Joke. [ARTICLE]

The Late Leopold Morse's Little Joke.

Mr. Morse was too much of a man to be ashamed of his calling, and never failed to turn the tables on anyone who chaffed him about it A story used to be fold of a visit paid to his store in Boston by a Washington swell, who had met him at the Metropolitan Club here, and who thought to have a little amusement at his expense, the visitor entered Mr. Morse was Just in the act of bowing out a customer to whom he had sold a large bill of goods. “Ha, Morse!” cried the Washingaoni'an, “how I wish the fellows at the club could see you now l . I watched the way you handled that poor wretch. It was artistic, but it wouldn’t do so tell away from home. What will ybii'give me to keep quiet about it?” The clothier looked his caller in the face without a smile. “I must gif you someding to buy your silence?” he asked, soberly. “Certainly. It’s only fair that I should rewarded for holding a good thing back.” Mr. Morse turned to one of his clerks: “Choseph,” he said, “get down one o’ dem monkey chackets ve sell vor two tollars and a quarter. Let dis chentlemao ’af it for one.toller and sefenty-flfe cents —he's a frlent of mine.”—Kate Field’s Washington.