Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — Much Abbreviated. [ARTICLE]

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A customer from one of the suburbs dropped into a paint shop, took a slip of paper from his pocket, looked at it, knitted his brows, shook his head, put on his glasses, inspected the paper again, and gave it up as a bad job. “I made ti hasty memorandum,” he saicFto the proprietor of the shop, “of something I was to call here and buy, but I trusted too much to my memory. I seem to have jotted down nothing but the initials, and I’ve forgotten what they mean.” “Let me see the memorandum,” said the proprietor. “It may be that I can help you.” “It’s nothing but three letters,” replied the customer, handing it over. “Only ‘C. P. A.’ ’’ “So I see. ‘C. P. A.’ Why, that’s sepia, a kind of brown paint. Wasn’t that it?” “What a fool I am! Of course It was.” He got his sepia, threw a big red apple on the counter in lieu of “hush money,” and went away with a sheepish look on his face.