To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cama Datty News."
Sin,—I find it is a common practice with flower sellers in the market to stick the flowers of roses or azaleas on the stalks of some other plant and sell them for fresh flowers. At first one is rather amused at the trick but after _being "done" several times one fails to see the joke. After all it is fraud, and as flowers are not cheap it is an expensive joke. I wonder whether our P.W.D. Inspector would kindly give a warning to those practical jokers that they may find themselves in the Mixed Court one of those days in consequence of this little pleasantry. It might have a salutary effect.
I am, ete., Shanghai, April 28.
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