The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-01
"FLIM-FLAMMING."
s7OReKEEPERS CAUGHT BY A COM"
MON SWlNOLING TRICK.
,cbsme which Sadly BewiIders the Shop
man Who Is His Own Cashier-HOw
Variations of the Game
Are worked.
New York Herald. |

One of the many petty annoyanCes that
s,orekecpcrs are subject to is the process
N ~Hin.lamming The word is not to
h found in the dictionary, nor, for that
matter. are some Of the vigorous express
lions made use of the viCtimiZed shop
keeper when he has been " film TANNED.
The trick is best explained by relating an
instance in point that came under re-
por,ers observation The reporter had
purCha,cd a weed in a cigar store, and
lille testing its drawing capacity there
entered the store an Irish wOman-appar-
unity a respectable, honest, everyday
working woman. She asked for two bags
b smoking tobacco. They were wrapped
hp for her by the urbanc stOrekeeper. She
rendered 81 bill and received in
kange, $lSl. Then began the " film.
canning device.
& My husband, sOr, says these bags is
lyo for - cints, " she observed, land you
bre charging me l6 cints, sor.
M The proprietor assured her that the to-
bacco could not be sold at the price she
staed
Then give me back my money.
FOnt take them, she replied.
# The man did as she requested, she
meanwhile retaining the Sic in change.
hen came point No in the interesting
8windle In came man with much
hustle and asked for a penny box of
matches, and rendered a quarter there
for While the storekeeper was making
Change tor the man, who was the con-
federate OF the woman, and whose entry
y always opportunely timed so as to
evert the victims attention while the
prst operator IS making the final steps
m srAAIc Ia, 81
que original purchase money rendered, the
Woman kept harping on the DEAFNESS of
lhe tobacco. The man having gone, the
woman pointed to some other brands of
'Sooacco on the shelves, and there ensued
p conversation about prices of tobacco in
EeneraL The upshot was that the woman
iook up the original packages of tobacco
huu loltlly remarked that after all "a clint
Eas neither here nor there with her
= hder cover Of another customer who
came in and who may or NAV not have
pon confederate also the woman went
pGt with two bags of tobacco, S1.94 in
thange and her own 50 bill That is how
MANNED.
Inc storekeeper, when told by the re-
porter that he was minus the s. bill. lust
MaNed long enough to verify the fact and
snen tore madly around the counter
'uaShed out of the door, glared wildly up
eHu down the street, and, catching sight
~ lhe INN, tammeuse waddling hastily
'lCIosS The street, he gave chase. Swooped
uo"u upon her, and made her return to
~, c1eI store where, upon a threat of i'm
nn3 ID arrest, she returned the change
80 'ne TOBACCO 1t occurred to the re.
- So Whle the storekeeper was prancing
6I Nv, 'le street how easy it mi ght have
49, ~. LOT third confederate to have been
.Niins around, waiting for just such a
80! sehcy as the proprietor's temporary
nnT 81 OF the shop and profting thereby
pun pun to the damper.
earma are some variations to this
saint saint, as, for instance, the Slim
Ib1I '' nEsI might have asked for dollar
Orn aI'er the purchase. carelessly re
t carti. That he or she didn't care Ito be
61TI,.tnS around so much small chance "
gr"ni i99s secured the 81 bill. the operator
s sbo hand back 81 cents. OF course
~. u ,S behind the counter would saw
~ IT, 'ne change was short of a dollar
ms Nc SW! ~ would then loftilv wish to
| h. v II The storekeeper was not aware
.Snrn t que price of the tobacco made up the
him r '"eNing the round dollar. The vic.
EiuSt NV DecomeS nonplussed, and that is
70 be n 'Ae ScheHlsr ueslreS MIN
|who S 70 no no." asseverates the storekeeper.
|gIimm n now Nv getting angry, with a faint
Sigbt Ia"nlng upon him that all is not
! lin. = lore wore pickering follows, until the
IworIe .EJa lll gets his subject properly
grace n Tl' and then comes the coup de
6f CON me Inc rogue snatches up the hone
touchua,SS ntlon-the 81 cents remaining IN.
'out n l, upon the counter-and nn1lino
toboCcoo,' 1rows it and the 81 cents and tbS
RocifeerUo,uo wn with vicious slam and
eimatCotso .Ey demands his SO bill and in
Us he 'C CO. onat nc wants to get as far awav
b lunt yau aud as soon as he can from such
keeneru Eau OF a storekeeper The store
tral Py' sa VINO is now at white heat, gen cen.
tres tbss e ~ ,' caught at this jupcture He
4 fim.4ag5 growl is exchanged, and the
h bin I an9 lei bolts out with his original
Which S ANA the 81 bin the chanSins U of
game is mao %oS caused a.. the final row. The he
30 Cent n worked in this way with from u
piece to $40 bill nun