If he or she be brusque, be yourself pliable, respectful, and by all
means quick. Do not stand in front of him or her with your head down
ready to hook or to butt. You are glad the customer has come in. That
should solve the whole problem. In the city you are required to "put up
with" the bad mannered fashion that people have of treating a clerk as
if he were a piece of furniture, but in the town this is all changed. A
majority of the citizens know you, and all regard you with better
breeding than would the city customer. You are young and positive,
because you know very little about life. Curb yourself. Let the customer
make all the statements he has to make. He will run out of them
presently. In case he want any of yours, he will then ask for them, and
literally be at your mercy. As to