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The owner of a small roadside store was well known by his regulars for quoting a bit of Bible scripture after every sale.
When a young girl came into the store and bought some candy, he rung up the sale and said: "Suffer the little children come unto me."
When a woman came into the store to buy a birthday card for her father, he rung up the sale and said: "Honor thy father and thy mother."
One day a large truck and horse trailer pulled up to the store. A man in an expensive suit walked in and asked if the store had any horse blankets.
The owner replied that he thought he did have one horse blanket in the back. He brought it out and set it on the counter. "Twenty-five dollars," he told the man.
"Now wait a minute," the man replied, "I've got a prize winning thoroughbred out in that trailer. I need something better than this twenty-five dollar blanket to put on him."
The owner went to the back room, unfolded the blanket, then re-folded the blanket a different way. He brought it back out, placed it on the counter and said, "Fifty dollars."
The man shook his head and said, "I don't think you understand. Nothing is too good for this horse. Don't you have anything better?"
The owner went to the back room, flattened out the blanket and then rolled the blanket up. He brought it back out and placed it on the counter. "One hundred thirty dollars," he said.
"That's more like it," the man said proudly and paid for the blanket and walked out.
The owner rung up the sale, placed the money in the register, lifted his eyes up to heaven and said: "He was a stranger... and I took him in."
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