A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers. “Last week，” he said,“My umbrella was stolen from a London church.(1) _______________________________________.”“How did you write your advertisement?”asked a businessman.The man took out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper.The other man took it and read,“(2) _______________________________________.The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street.”
“Now,” said the man, “I often advertise,and find that it is always useful.But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of great importance.”The businessman then took a slip of paper and wrote:“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening does not wish to get into trouble,he will return the umbrella to No. 10 Broad Street.He is already known.”(3) _______________________________________.In the door way lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown in,and his own was among the number.
