There were these two old gentlemen in the store one day. It was in the spring and no doubt there wasn't all that much to be had in the way of goodies. One old fellow wasn't all that well off anyhow. If there were extras available, he had no means of getting them financially. He said to the other fellow, "Tis starvation, Boy. Nothing at all to eat except tea and bread, tea and bread, tea and bread every meal." The other fellow says, "Why the hell don't you have bread and tea sometimes for a change?"

A chap said to me once, "Can you change a fifty dollar bill'?" I looked at him. It was rare then for someone to have a fifty dollar bill. "Yes", I said, "I have change for a fifty. Why do you have one?" No," he said.

This woman purchased five pounds of loose tea, took it home and a few minutes later she came back and wanted to know if I had made a mistake with the weight. She thought she had too much. She couldn't get all the five pounds of tea in a five pound baking soda can.

Another fellow picked up his order, which included five bottles of Browning Harvey's jams with a picture of the partridge on the label. He asked what the price was. There happened to be different prices. "How is that sure," he says, "It's all the same kind." "No," I said, " You have one raspberry, two strawberry and two partridgeberry." "Sure," he says, "the bird is the same."

This woman bought a crew neck sweater. She took it home and shortly after that, she sent the young boy back with it, with the explanation, "Ma said she didn't want the sweater, it was no good." 'What do you mean, no good?" I said. He said, "She can't get her tit out." The woman had a small baby at the time.

The price of sewing cotton was nine cents a reel. This customer purchased a reel and threw ten cents on the counter saying, "I owes you one cent."

Two fellows came into the store one day. They didn't have much money, but they wanted something for lunch. One fellow says,"Lets buy a tin of fruit and go fifty fifty." The other fellow says, "No, lets buy a can of beans and go farty farty."

Two young fellows and their father used to fish together. The old man was getting up in age and as a result he didn't go out every time the boys went. This day a young fellow was looking out the store window. At the same time the two young men were coming in the cove in the boat. He said to me, "The old man don't go out now, do he?" "Yes," I said, "He goes out." He says, "He don't come back then."

His mother sent this young boy to the store one day. They were down and out, as the saying goes, and didn't have any money. The young fellow said, all under one breath, "Ma wants you to send her over two pounds of biscuits, two cans fruit, two tins of meat and two pounds of cheese. She's sick and can't eat anything." There happened to be another old fellow in the store at the time. He said to the young boy, "What the hell do she want all the food for if she's sick and can't eat?"

I had a Fairbanks scale there in the store. There were four or five young boys there once checking their weight. One fellow didn't know the figures, so he asked another fellow to weigh him, which he did. The young fellow says, "How heavy am I ?" "You're eighty pounds." "Ha, ha, ha," he says, "I was only standing on one leg."