"I don't want any other color. I want stuff to match this."
"It's hard to match cheap calico like that," she said, and so I left her.
I next went into a store a few doors farther up Broadway. When I entered I approached the "floor-walker," and handing him my sample, said:
"Have you any calico like this?"
"Yes, sir," said he. "Third counter to the right."
I went to the third counter to the right, and showed my sample to the saleman in attendance there. He looked at it on both sides. Then he said:
"We haven't any of this."
"That gentleman said you had," said I.
"We had it, but we're out of it now. You'll get that goods at an upholsterer's."
I went across the street to an upholsterer's.