Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Scene in a Country Grocery Store [ARTICLE]

Scene in a Country Grocery Store

Tramp (entering)—“Say, could you let me have a glass of whiskyV I have no coin wid me, but I’ll give you five stamps, if that’ll do.” j&rocer (to get rid of him) —“Al; right (pours out the whisky) here’s your whisky.” Tramp drinks it, smacks his tips, stamps live times on the floor and walks toward the door. The grocer shouts at him to come back. Tramp returns. £.. • “What do you want?” “Didn’t I give them Id you? 12 —-s“No, of course not.” “Well, here they are again.’ (Stamps five times more.) “Ah, I see; ha! ha! Well, that’s a pretty good joke, but I’ll tell you what I’ll do; I’ll give you a quarter to try that on that fellow across the street there.” _ “Sh! Why, ho just gave me 50 cents to try it on you.”