By Frank Stockton
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(Part 1)

I was going to town one morning when my wife gave me a little piece of red calico cloth. She asked me if I would have time during the day, to buy her two and a half meters of calico cloth like that. I told her that it would be no trouble at all. Putting the piece of brightly colored cloth in my pocket, I took the train to the city.

During the day, I stopped in at a large store. I saw a man walking the floor and asked him where I could see some red ca...