Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-07
A CLERICAL DIALOGUE.
The Cashier RspTOachSs tas BllI Clerk
For Wis IncOnstaRCy.


"There was a new voice over the
phone asking for you, Johnny" said
the cashier gravely and with shake
Of his head. Another voice on the
phone, another heart palpitating
with fond expectancy, another victim
to young mans vanity, another"
Another SPELL" interrupted the
bill clerk. Another relapse into
dottiness. Why don't you go and see
a specialist"
II fear me that you are butter
fly" sighed the cashier. "The sad
conclusion is borne upon me that you
fit from flower to flower, slipping the
sweetness of EACH"
"Am l to blame II they won't let
me alone2" asked the bill clerk
plaintively. "If they will run after
me, what can l do? / can't be rough
and brutal with them; it's not my
nature. suppose / might spurn
them when they come too thick; but.
honest, just hate to do IT."
"Don't tell me-" said the cashier
severely. "You're a filter. A plain
filter"
"Just SO long as you don't call me
a gutter, !" said the bill clerk.
II wouldn't try to make heartless
Jest of It," said the cashier. "It'A
nothing to grin about. If won the
trusting affections of sweet young
girl I'd hang right to them until
death prled me loose. That's the way
tfid, as a matter of fact. You ask
the madam"
81 will some time" said the bill
clerk. sim rather curious to see
what she will have to say about it.
But, honest, do you think a fellow
ought to stick to one girl? If he tied
up to the first fairy he got little
foolish over he'd miss the right one,
just as likely as not, and never know
It. I've sat up with quite few Of
'em myself, and 1t seems to me that
they get better all the time"
"Lothario! said the cashier.
"Think of the wrecked and blighted
young lives! Think OF the rosy
cheeks growing wan and pale over
your fckleness!"
Anything to oblige," said the bill
clerk. "I'll take day off some time
and think Of EN-"
"He hasn't even the curiosity to
ask who called him up!" said the
cashier. "The fact that trusting
female is pining in his absence is
nothing to him. Only one of many,
suppose.
"That's the idea," said the bill
clerk pleasantly. II can't keep track
Of 'em all. Another thing: I've lost
good deal of my curiosity since I've
been around this shop. It's like call
ing four aces with pair of deuces."
"You speak darkly and in riddles"
said the cashier. II can assure you,
however, that the lady seemed anx-
ious. She was not satisfied with the
explanation that you had gone to
lunch. She wanted to know how long
you had been gone and when you
would be back. She informed me
that she was about to start down.
town and would probably look in"
"Come ONT" said the bill clerk, In
credulously.
"Also she inquired If Saturday was
the pay day in this Office and she
wanted to know If / wasn't your en-
ployer. / told her that l was and
assured her that any confidence she
might repose in me would be held
sacred. Johnny" the cashier de-
manded seriously, "why don't you pay
the poor, Woodworking woman what
you owe her? She has to pay her
grocer and her help and she can't at
ford to be boarding you right along
on mere promises"
"Do you mean to tell me that Mrs.
Canford called up and made any such
break as that?" said the bill clerk in
some agitation.
~You heard what I said, didn't
your" said the cashier. "Why don't
you pay herr"
because I've paid her already"
said the bill clerk, triumphantly.
"I'm not only paid up, but I'm week
in advance. That was one time !
fooled you" a.
well. she's got a level head to
make you pay In ADVANCE said the
cashier.-Chicago News. ~