Albert Says “The Customer is Always Right”

Albert Smith, ace salesman of the Oilier Oil Company, has been hanging around Manlidale like a bad smell, for years. Incredible though it may seem he has peddled the firm's repulsive wares in mill and machine shop with undoubted success and with the passing of time, his rough mannered but good hearted northern customers have accepted him as a gormless but harmless chap, whose regular visits enliven the working day. Time has somewhat tempered his initial, boyish exuberance but has left his pathetic trust in the OOCo lubes unimpaired; and, we fear added little to his initial ignorance of the strange machines with which the many and myterious Manlidalian products are manufactured. Mercifully our benign editor only inflicts Albert on subscribers once a year; at Xmas time when, imbition being at a maximum, his ridiculous and lubricious adventures may appear tolerable.