"Yes, sir," replied Dave, ranging before the man an array of lantern goods.
"You have come to be clerk?" asked the man.
Dave looked up more carefully, and saw that the man wore spectacles.
"Yes, sir," replied Dave.
The man inquired the price of the lanterns, selected one, and went out.
"Halloo! he has given me twopence too much!" exclaimed Dave.
"That doesn't matter," said a man who was watching through a window in the door the storm driving without.
"Oh yes, it does," murmured Dave.--"Johnny!" he called aloud to a younger clerk in the counting-room, "just look after things a moment while I go out."
Johnny came out into the shop, and Dave seized his cap and ran after the customer. The latter was a fast walker, and was hurrying round a corner of the street when Dave overtook him.
"See here, sir! A mistake in the change. I counted it, and you gave me too much."