27/58 All out." "But will have some in very shortly, I presume," suggested the assistant, who knew the idiosyncrasies of country stores. That store's got a consider'ble sight more expectations in it than it has anything else. When it's so cold that the snow birds get chilblains they'll have the shelves chuck full of fly paper. Now, when it's hotter than a kittle of pepper tea, the bulk of their stock is ice picks and mittens. |