The Rascal Responded Promptly.
Up in a certain town the grocers understand all the little tricks of the trade. A gentleman bought six pounds of sugar, and found it sadly adulterated with sand. The next day a notice was posted reading thus:
"Notice—I bought six pounds of sugar of a grocer in this village. From it I have taken one pound of sand. If the rascal will send me six pounds of sugar I will not expose him."
The next day five six-pound packages of sugar were left at the gentleman's residence, there being just five grocers in the village.
—Boston Record.
(With apologies to Scott and Pope.)
Oh, woman in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
—Town Topics.