"It's hard to match cheap calico like that," she said, and so I left her.
I next went into a store a few doors farther up Broadway. When I entered I approached the " floor-walker," and handing him my sample, said:
"Have you any calico like this?"
"Yes, sir," said he. "Third counter to the right"
I went to the third counter to the right, and showed my sample to the salesman in attendance there. He looked at it on both sides. Then he said:
"We haven't any of this."
"That gentleman said you had," said I.
"We had it, but we're out of it now. You'll get that goods at an upholsterer's."
I went across the street to an upholsterer's.
"Have you any stuff like this?" I asked.
"No," said the salesman. "We haven't. Is it for furniture?"
"Yes," I replied.
"Then Turkey red is what you want?"
"Is Turkey red just like this? " I asked.
"No," said he; "but it's much better."
"That makes no difference to me," I replied. "I want something just like this."
"But they don't use that for furniture," he said.
"I should think people could use any thing they wanted for furniture," I remarked, somewhat sharply.
"They can, but they don't," he said quite calmly. "They don't use red like that. They use Turkey red."
I said no more, but left. The next place I visited was a very large dry-goods store. Of the first sales-
