"Say!" Birsky exclaimed, "it doesn't harm a business man that his customers should see his name down for ten dollars or so in the annual report of an orphan asylum or a hospital."
"If a man," Zapp agreed, "I know," Zapp agreed, "business man gives to charity he expects to get an order from the Kaiser."
"For my part," Birsky said, "I would have to get an order from the customer as from the Kaiser, because if you should get a Black or a White Eagle of the Second Class, what are you going to do with it?"
"Wear it on the outside of your overcoat, I suppose," Zapp replied.
"And get arrested for impersonating an officer!" Birsky said. "I would as I believe go to the German bazaar and buy them vulcanized cigars."
"That ain't so foolish neither," Zapp concluded, "If you carry along the exact change."
(Copyright, New York Tribune.)
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