Cap'n Dan's Daughter

Cap'n Dan's Daughter

The Metropolitan Dry Goods and Variety Store at Trumet Centre was open for business. Sam Bartlett, the boy whose duty it was to take down the shutters, sweep out, dust, and wait upon early-bird customers, had performed the first three of these tasks and gone home for breakfast. The reason he had not performed the fourththe waiting upon customerswas simple enough; there had been no customers to wait upon. The Metropolitan Dry Goods and Variety Store was open and ready for businessbut, unfortunately, there was no business. There should have been. This was August, the season of the year when, if ever, Trumet shopkeepers should be beaming across their counters at the city visitor, male or female, and telling him or her, that white duck hats are all the go this summer, or there's nothin' better than an oilskin coat for sailin' cruises or picnics. Outing shirts and yachting caps, fancy stationery, post cards, and chocolates should be changing hands at a great rate and the showcase, containing the nicked blue plates and cracked teapots, the battered candlesticks and tarnished pewters, genuine antiques, should be opened at frequent intervals for the inspection of bargain-seeking mothers and their daughters. July and August are the Cape Cod harvest months; if the single-entry ledgers of Trumet's business men do not show good-sized profits during that season they are not likely to do so the rest of the year. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 6718
Author: Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English