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

pie firmly refused to take back the
tubs. We've just reflled Our re-
frigerators, and can't accommodate
any more" they said. But they
added something more in a telephone
whisper.
"Mr. Leslie,'' said Breezy, when
the proprietor rang off, without any
visible allayment of his wrath, ''I was
ordered to get only twenty, but 1
made it hundred, and"
"You did, did you ?" burst out
Leslie, glaring at Breezy with unut-
terable derision. you'll be adver-
tising yourself as proprietor of this
store shortly, won't you ?"
but, Mr.. Leslie" protested Bree-
~, buffers going up in few days. ;"
"Great guns !" roared Leslie, "are
--are you running this firm, you-
you impudent young fool? You
young barrel of gall I've notion
toifkeak your - head !"
breezy huShed angrily.
"Go out and draw your salary, and
neverset foot here again !"
Breezy turned on his heel and walk
ed out, without looking at the clerks
who hat assembled at the wareroom
door, attacted by the loud voices.
Fools! fools p he muttered be-
tween histeeth, as he drove his bicy-
Gle along tie street.
When h looked at copies of all
the morning papers, in which ap-
peared the Advertisements he had pre-
pared the day before, in lieu of the
originals, he smiled in genuine artistic
qualification.
eff that dn't sell BUTTER" he
chuckled, nothing ever will" The
advertisement predicted that butter
would go UP very soon, and that Les
lie & Co. had bought, in anticipation
of this, 100 tubs, which they would
sell at one cent below the market
price.
"There will be astill awfuller row
in that shanty when they see these.
They might arrest me-" But the
spirit of Breezy rose hopefully to the
possibility. eff they only wait till
tonight.
He learnt afterwards that the store
was crowded with butter buyers from
early morning until late in the after
noon, and that his advertisements had
precipitated the coming rise in price,
and an advance of one cent was al
ready asked that same day.
1t was during the afternoon of the
next day that Breezy received note
asking him to call at the Office of the
grocery firm of Leslie & Co.
"See here, young man." said Les
lie to him in his private Office, "what
you did on Tuesday was a thing that
could have put you behind prison
bars. Do you understand %
Privately, Breezy was skeptical,
but he nodded doggedly, thinking
that Leslie merely wished to abuse
him, and regretted that he had come
at all.
It was pure malicious mischief in
the eyes of the law" continued Les
lie, "and an entirely objectionable Of
fense. But while this is undoubted-
1y so"-he talked more moderately
and less harshly-''it- 'it-well, to be
frank, those ads The remem-
brance of this part of Breezy's mis-
demeanor swelled his indignation, and
he was again angry. "Those ads, "
he continued, ''that you dutched for
us-well, it was worth six months at
hard confinement itself !' He g1ar-
ed impotently, while he got red in
the face.
"Well," he began again, as 1 was
saying, those ads-er-well, they
drew the trade, in brief, and we sold
the whole hundred tubs p He said
this as though it was little short OF
miraculous. Breezy did not wink an
eye. To him it was the natural re-
suit.
As Breezy still held his peace, Les
lie resumed: "As a result we are
er-have cleared, well, some hundred
dollars.
Breezy still remained silent, and
Leslie put on pompous frown.
Understand, young man," he de-
claimed, Gin giving you the position
of superintendent and advertising
manager of this store, we most Ger.
tainly wish to express Our vehement
displeasure at your act of Tuesday,
lucky as it happened to turn out, and
solemnly warn you that a repetition
of such monstrous ofense will mean
instant discharge. To hold this po
sition, you will have to confne your
self to reasonable and cautious meth
DDS of doing business. Your salary
will be three times your former one
Get out now, and don't bother me-
but show UP ready for work Monday
morning.
The only evidence Breezy gave o.
his satisfaction with this interview
was that he rode mad1y up the full
length of the steepest hill in the city
on his way home, to rid himself oi
surplus nervous energy.-/. Geo,gt
Frederick, IN McC7u,e's Magazine.