

"The Grocery Man" from George Wilbur Peck. American writer and politician who served as the 17th Governor of Wisconsin (1840-1916).




"How do you and your Pa get along now," asked the grocery-man of the bad boy, as he leaned against the counter instead of sitting down on a stool while he bought a bottle of liniment. "O, I don't know. He don't seem to appreciate me. What he ought to have is a deaf and dumb boy,...