Paying for Paper.
Buyer: Mr. Butcher, what does the wrapping paper you put around my meat weigh?
Butcher: Oh, a mere trifle; my scales don't show it.
Buyer: Do you know that the paper, twine, and burlap in which meat is wrapped in the one State of New York cost the buyers three million dollars a year?
Butcher: Impossible!
Buyer: But a fact, nevertheless. Now I want my share of that three million dollars.
Butcher: How can you get it?
Buyer: By insisting that hereafter you weigh my meat before you put the paper under it, and that you get your meat weighed for you in the same style.
Butcher: But—but-ah—
Buyer: If you won't, I know a dealer that will.
Butcher: Of course I will, sir; anything to please a good customer like you. Anything more to-day?