A bookseller reports these mistakes of customers in sending orders:
AS ORDERED
Lame as a Roble
God's Image in Mud
Pair of Saucers
Pierre and His Poodle
CORRECT TITLE
Les Misérables
God's Image in Man
Paracelsus
Pierre and His People
When a customer in a Boston department store asked a clerk for Hichens's Bella Donna, the reply was, "Drug counter, third aisle over."
It was a few days before Christmas in one of New York's large bookstores.
CLERK—"What is it, please?"
CUSTOMER—"I would like Ibsen's A Doll's House."
CLERK—"To cut out?"