L. “Show me the ribbons, and then I will tell you.”
S. “How many arsheens did you say?”
L. “Show me the French ribbons.”
The shopman unblushingly puts back the box which he has so recently declared contained the real article, and takes down another, which is filled with ribbons really of French fabrication.
L. “How much is this an arsheen?”
S. (With a most graceful inclination) “Seventy copecks.”
L. “Seventy copecks! Why, the price is only fifty, and that is all I will give you.”
S. (Quite indignant) “Fifty! they cost us more than that; you shall have it for sixty-five.”
L. “Fifty.”