“Well,” continued the old man, “I thought as how I could come up and give you some tips.”
“Yes,” said the clerk politely.
“Yes; I’ve thought it out a little, an’ I find that ye ain’t al’ays right.”
“No; we sometimes make mistakes.”
“Course ye do. We all does, some time. Now, I was thinkin’ as how a line that used to be on the auction handbills down in our county might do first-rate on your weather predictions an’ save ye a lot of explainin’.”
“What was the line?”
“Wind an’ weather permittin’.”
He went off without waiting to say good-by.
Saving the Building and Loan Money.
By E. E. YOUMANS.