"Well, how on earth do you expect to get it, then?" demanded the disgusted clerk. "I can't help you!"
"Yes, you can, too!" said the would-be customer, promptly. "What's the name of that bay on the lower part of this lake—eh?"
"Do you mean Put-in-Bay?"
"That's it! That's it! And what's the name of the old fellow that put in there once, you know? Celebrated character, you know?"
"Are you talking about Commodore Perry?"
"Good! I've got it! I've got it!" shouted the customer. "That's what I want! Gimme ten cents' worth of paregoric!"
FRANKLIN'S LOAN.
We often learn by sad experience that it is a very unwise plan to give money to the poor. It is much wiser either to loan or to require some slight return in work. This plan tends to raise the respect of the recipient, rather than to form the easily acquired habit of begging. In an old English magazine we find the following letter from Dr. Franklin to some unknown beggar; it is amusing as well as instructive:
"April 22, 1784.