The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-17

lie ran across the street TO tell Joe
about it, and found that Joe had been
equally careless He, too, had roaster
full of burnt nuts.
"What you goin' to do with emf"
asked Sam.
Throw 'em away, Of course an-
swered Joe,
:" | can't afford to throw 'em away"
said Sam.
"And can't afford to keep EN-"
said Joe, sit would be poor economy,
in my opinion. Besides, it wouldn't be
right. People want the worth of their
money and they ought to have it."
"Do as you like, of COURSE" said
Sam, Z" but | advise you to mix good
and bad together. That's what I'm
goin' to do. In that way you won't
lose anything, and you'll get rid of 'em
all"
Joe shook his head, and proceeded to
throw the burnt nuts into the street,
while Sam ran back to his stand to wait
on little girl who had paused before it
and was looking around for him.
"Wait minute, sissy" he said, and
he emptied the roaster of burnt nuts
into the big wooden tray, and mixed
them thoroughly with the good ones.
Then he measured out pint for the
little girl.
"Some of 'em is burnt" she said, as
she handed him five pennies. 81 cant
eat the burnt ones" and she looked
very doubtfully into the brown paper
bag.
"Use 'em for coffee, then" said Sam,
laughing.
There were a great many people on
the street who had come out 10 see the
procession, and Sam had all the GUS
tom he could attend to. BY noon he
had disposed of more than half his stock,
and when night came the big wooden
tray was entirely empty.
THAT was splendid idea Of mine, )"
he said to Joe, as they walked home
together.
You mean your idea of mixing the
nuts, l suppose" said Joe. "Did you
sell 'em all?'
Every one" answered Sam. "You
were foolish to throw yours away"
The next morning Sam saw two
ladies, to whom he had sold two quarts
of nuts the previous day, stop at Joe s
stand. He watched them, jealous OF
the custom they were giving his friend,
and vexed that they should buy of any
one but himself. And it seemed TO him
that they talked longer to Joe than was
really necessary. when they went away
at last he ran over to ask Joe how many
pints he had sold them.
''rhey didl't stop at pints," said
Joe; 'they took three quarts. They
said they threw away all those they
bought Of you yesterday, for there were
so many burnt ones among EN- that
they got out of all patience. dom
believe they will ever buy of you again,
, Sam. They said you must be careles:
. rooster"
They never did buy of Sam again,
, He had the pain and modification OF
seeing them stop very frequently al
l Joe's stand, but they always passed his
own without even glance. And the
+ two ladies were not the only customer
4 he lost. There was a perceptible de-
t crease in his daily receipts for a Ions
!, time after the affair Of the burnt nuts
t and corresponding increase in the in
0 come OF his rival. And almost every
a day he heard from Joe some remark
!. which had been made about the poo
r quality of the stock he kept People
. took it for granted that because he solo
G burnt nuts once he must sell them al
$ the time, and consequently avoided hi
G stand.
And Sam was thus forced TO the con
clusion that Joe had been right IL
thinking that splendid idea" was poo
economy.-FlOrence Hdilotocu, IN Con
gregationalist.