"Just one kiss," was the reply.
"All right," said the child as she turned to go, "grandma said to tell you she would pay you when she came in tomorrow."
"Them was nice folk you waited on, Mamie, ain't they?" "No, no, dear! Appearances is deceitful. They didn't have no charge-account. Paid cash for everything."—Judge.
Mr. Butterworth, the grocer, was looking over the credit sales-slips one day. Suddenly he called to the new clerk:
"Did you give George Callahan credit?"
"Sure," said the clerk. "I—"
"Didn't I tell you to get a report on any and every man asking for credit?"
"Why, I did," retorted the clerk, who was an earnest young fellow. "I did get a report. The agency said he owed money to every grocer in town, and, of course, if his credit was that good I knew that you would like to have him open an account here!"