"Have you any stuff like this?' I asked.
"No," said the salesman. "We haven't. Is it for furniture?"
"Yes," I replied.
"Then Turkey-red is what you want?"
"Is Turkey-red just like this?" I asked.
"No," said he; "but it's much better."
"That makes no difference to me," I replied. "I want something just like this."
"But they don't use that for furniture," he said.
"I should think people could use any thing they wanted for furniture," I remarked, somewhat sharply.
"They can, but they don't," he said quite calmly. "They don't use red like that. They use Turkey-red."