Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — HE DODGED THE TIP. [ARTICLE]

HE DODGED THE TIP.

Rather Rough on the Barber, but the Customer Saved a Dime. “Well, sub,” said the barber as tha man stepped out of the chair after having had his hair cut, “an’ how- doe* yo’ all lake it, suh?”' , The man stood before the looking glass and surveyed his head carefully and admiringly. “Well,” he said, after a pause, “I’ve had my hair cut all over the world, and : ” “Yaas, suh,” commented the black barber, delightedly. “And by all kinds andcolors of barbers. I’ve had my zazas clipped in Hongkong and I’ve had ’em razed in Port Said.” “Yaas, suh,” gurgled the barber, feeling the tip already in his mitt. “I’ve had ships’ barbers in the South seas reap my harvest of hirsute, and ' »» ‘'‘Yaas, Indeed, suh!” chimed in the overjoyed barber. “And I’ve had my tresses toyed with by the artistic ducks on the Rue des boulevard in Paris. But th!s—this _______ tt “Yaas, suh,” put in the barber, ex- — “This,” continued the man, as he slipped on his coat, “is the very rottenest apology for a rough-house hempehop that 1 ever saw in my life," aud he clapped on his hat and fled. “That was about the ouly way in the world," he muttered ns he got out into the open air, says the Washington Post, “that I could have the necessity of coughing up to that barber the dime that I required so badly in my business.”