Genius for Business
It’s a highly prized faculty in shop-keeping to sell something when a customer comes in, if you can. A female relative of ours went into a Hanover street fancy store ‘tother day, to “look over” some ivory card and needle cases; the slightly agricultural-looking clerk “flew around,” and when the question “Have you any ivory card cases?” was propounded, he responded—
“Not any, mum;” glancing into the show-case, his visual orbs lit upon a profusion of well-known matters in domestic economy, for the abrogation of certain parasitic insects.
“Haven’t any card cases, mum,—got some elegant ivory small-tooth combs!”