The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-06-22
HAD 4 KICK TO MAKE.

HAD KICK 70 MAKE,
AND NE MADE IT RIGHT 70 THE HEAD
OF THE FIRM.
II TIE Kicker Went About Landing Hss
SSF Proteat In q Rather Unconventional
Manner. but the Chances Are He
Got what He Was After.
Yes, !" said the tall, loose iointed
man at the telephone. .'that's the mum.
Der want-229.
Double two nine3'' queried the
voice at the central office.
"Well, don't know that double two
nine is any better than the plain, or
binary two, two, nine, but if you insist
on that style suppose we say double
two single nine and get it exactly right.
Hellol Is that Spotcash & Co. 'sf''
eyes. responded the voice at the
other end Of the wire.
els Mr.. Spotcash inf''
els it something importanti He is
much occupied"
$50 am I. Yes; lisa patter of some
Importance. and want to talk to Mr..
Spotcash personally. Yes; I'll hold the
wire-that is, I'll hold the phone
'.Hello!' snapped somebody at this
juncture.
"Hello! Is that Mr.. spotcashs"
eyes. Who is it?''
''You are the head of the firm of
Spotcash & Co.. are you not?''
eyes, was the impatient answer.
"What do you wants Who are your"
"Gwilliams, 1895 Pumpernickel
street. want to enter complaint. -
''What about2"
~ bought an icebox at your store
few days ago. and'-
''Call up the household goods depart
ment, confound you! have no time to
spare to look after such things"
you've got as much time, perhaps
as have I Haven't any complaint to
make to the household goods depart
ment. The head of the firm is the man
want to talk to. I bought an icebox
at your store a few days ago for $40. rs.
might have got it cheaper somewhere
else, but that isn't the point. Having
bought it and paid for it, I had right
to expect it to be delivered within a
reasonable time and in fair condition.
It didn't come for four days. and when
it did GOMEZ
J "Say, you, employ men to hear
complaints Of this kind'-
II have no use for them. You're the
responsible man of the house. The sys-
tenn is yours. If it doesn' t work smooth
", it is your fault. When that icebox
came four days after purchase, one of
the castors was missing, the varnish
was scraped of the outside surface in
more than a dozen places. and it looked
as if it had gone through hard season
at cheap boarding house,
IF there's anything wrong with it, -
roared Mr.. Spotcash. "send it backl I
can't take up my time
"Stand a little farther away from
the phone. Mr.. Spotcash. Your voice
sounds as if you had your mouth full
Of mashed potatoes
''Who the devil are your
II think I gave you my name and
address-Gwilliams, 1 1876 Pumpernickel
street. next door to Lazarus ]. Spill
You don't know me from a
alligator. but you may have
Spillhorn. Don't you allow
10 get hot, Mr.. Spotcash, over
The incongruity Of such
hit to be apparent even to the
n overgrown junkshop'-
were here. sir, should kick
my Office
would probably need some help
cebox had simply been defaced
l shouldn't have made any fuss
but the stupid ass you sent to
7en't you sense enough, you in
idiot, to know that I don't look
onally after the little details Of a
4siness amounting to millions of dol
lars year?"
'If you don't grasp every detail of
that business, you Cheap John notion
peddler in gilt binding, you are not
fit to be the boss of it'll Don't try to
crawl out of the responsibility by
throwing the blame on some boy. If
that icebox had simply been defaced
little, I repeat, I shouldn't have made
any fuss about it, but the fellow you
sent to deliver it didn't have any more
sense than to tumble it on the side
walk
Bring it back, blank you''-
Look here, Spotcash, that won't do.
You know. You are not allowed to talk
in that style over the telephone. Exer-
else a little common sense, Spotcash.
You know it isn't my place to bring
that icebox back The proper thing to
do. you thirty third degree haberdasher
and toy vendor, is to send me new
icebox and take the damaged one
back
..You blank fool. do you think you
can tell me-
''Again let me tell you. spotcash.
not to use such language over the tele-
phone. Some remote ancestor of yours
may possibly have been gentleman
Try to emulate him. Spotcash. In the