He doesn't have a Mr. Dithers, but he needs some sort of short, authority figure to whom he owes his livelihood. Is this an audition for such a fellow?

Mr. Staple! Will he be a recurring figure? Perhaps. It's the rare grocer who follows a salesman home to force an order on him.

And it's a rare salesman who delivers his spiel then just . . . walks out of the store without exchanging words with the merchant?

Well, it's no less pecular or unfunny as the rest of the comics in the paper.