“Take ad?” inquired he.
“Your ad? What is it?”
“Laundry.” He proffered a neat and competently prepared two-inch single column “card,” announcing that Wong Kee stood ready to perform high-class laundering for the discerning public at reasonable prices.
“All right. Take it to the Advertising window.”
“No good.”
“Why not?”
“Turn down.”
“Nonsense!”
“Chinese laundry. Turn down,” asseverated Wong Kee evenly.
“When did you try?”