The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-09

egg sign, and read: IF you wait
until tomorrow to buy these eggs at
fifteen cents the dozen, they may not
be as good as they are today 7"
Promptly Breezy had another one up
which read: cts throwing these
eggs at you to sell them for fifteen
cents the dozen. They're not bad,
though"
Thompson stood before it for full
two minutes before he decided to let
it pass, and then walked away, muir
muring, Him, him."
But Breezy ran to extremes, and
one day, when Leslie paused before
a cheese sign and read, "Hold your
nose here. 1t only takes the clerk
two minutes by the clock to wrap up
half pound at thirty cents" decid-
ed that he would draw the limit, and
he told Breezy to take it down, which
Breezy did with rather crestfallen
air. He had been particularly proud
of this effort, and had stood behind
his register dozen different times
during the day, to watch customers
stare and break out into laughter.
A week later they made him take an
other one down, and Mr.. Leslie call
ed him aside.
Don't try to be so funny on your
cards." he frowned. "You make
nice cards when you stick to fact, but
when you get humorous you are as
loud as a barrel of mackerel."
Breezy grunted ungracious acqui-
escence, while the corners of the gro
GERS mouth twitched at the recollec-
ton of some of the cards. But they
continued to be as fragrant as ever.
Thompson complained to Leslie about
it, and the proprietor sat for a few
moments in deep thought.
'"That boy has too much vitality"
he said, "and we'll have to give him
another outlet for it. Making cards
and answering the telephone isn't
enough for him to do. 1 believe that
/ will put Morris at the telephone,
and let Smith do our important out
side business down town." The
change was accordingly made, and
Breezy became q sort of confidential
clerk, doing most of the firms bust
ness with the banks and the down.
town offices. Enthusiastically, he
allowed no opportunity to escape to
learn the firms manner of doing bus
mess, and its needs. He was not
chary with suggestions either, and
was told by the firm more than once
that his advice had not been asked,
and that it was therefore not very
valuable. This logic Breezy utterly
failed to comprehend.
His old friends smiled as he dashed
by them daily on his bicycle, his hat
crushed into his head and his face al
most on the handle bars.
The firm sent him to the newspaper
offices to take advertising copy. The
advertisements which he carried he
criticised freely on the road down
a decidedly adverse nature, and his
opinion Of the man who wrote them,
the head of the firm, grew more and
more contemptuous. He had learned
some lessons in advertising by his
card making.
One morning they sent him to a
downtown firm of producers with an
order for twenty tubs of butter. With
the order they gave him copy to
take to all the morning papers, max
ing commonplace and altogether un-
attractive mention-thought Breezy
of proposed special sale of these
twenty tubs of butter.
"That's the weakest thing yet"
he soliloquized, as he sped down the
empty avenue. "Butter'll go up
three cents a pound one of these
days"
AS he stood in the Office of the
company, he heard a man say some
thing confdentially to the produce
man and customer that made him
wink hard. 1t was that butter would
go up in a few days. The customer
did not seem to take it very seriously,
but Breezy construed it into mighty
tip.
''Just what I thought" he said to
himself. "That slow firm buying
only twenty tubs p It occurred to
him that he might telephone to the
firm and give them the tip; but he
Immediately rejected the idea.
"They'd only laugh and tell me
that l wasn't running the business. !"
Then was born great idea. An
instant later he was decided. The
producer whistled when Breezy hand
ed him an order for hundred tubs.
"It'll take all we have" he said.
Breezy sat down at a desk and
wrote something rapidly. The fore
man at the newspaper composing
rooms looked at him in surprise as he
gave directions about border and type,
technicalities which he had learned as
editor OF the school paper.
The tubs were all delivered in the
afternoon. Thompson came out in
the wareroom and looked at the first
batch of twenty. 81 wouldn't have
ordered twenty !' he said shaking
his head. Il told Jim they wouldn' t
CO." He wasn't in when the rest
came. Are they turning the store
in butter house?" said the shipping
clerk, grumbling, as he helped the
men bring them in.
"Great heavens r' Thompson ejac-
ulated the next morning when he
came into the wareroom. "Where
does all this butter come from ?"
The shipping clerk looked unintelli-
gent, and made no answer. Thomp-
son brought in the head of the firm,
Mr.. Leslie. He, in turn stared dumb
ly at the tiers of tubs.
"What the -" he began ex-
citedly. 81 told you to order twen-
ty, didn't I?"
"You advised me not to buy mo,e, +"