Clerical gentleman (who objects to gmoke, and means to make an example)— " May I inquire your name, sir?" Commercial—" To be sure you may. I m Davis, from Bradford, in the stuff trade. What line might yours be?" Clerical gentleman (with irony)—" The spiritual, sir." Commercial (not noticing the irony) <> is it, though ? What an awful price you've got gin up to the last fortnight!" The clerical gentleman- discovers that he has a friend in another carriage.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 326, 2 September 1879, Page 2
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77Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 326, 2 September 1879, Page 2
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