NOT TRANSFERABLE.
Sir,—The 'law is a: Hass;' and ;so' ire some of itS ■regulations. ' Why ' Should not long-distance tickets .be transferable? BecaUso of. inflexibility: and unadaptive-' ness to public needs.' Sonie .years ago two gentlemen met on . the 2 Palmerston platform: "What, ho! Who'd have thought of meeting-you? How's things?" "Mixed, if you ask inei I'd like to go down to-niglit, but my ticket is a round one, and as they are not giving anything away to the company, and I'm not giving anything away'to. them, I won't .got there. till to-morrow night.'.' "Well,' now, I do call that luck. I came lip.this iiornirig, and expected to have to go b'ick to-night.- and -up tho other line to-hS6r-row.'. >N6w,-givo us your ticket:" "Right oh!; Look oiit! ' Here's Tommy Arthtir! and with .the blush of crimson shame still scarlet lining., their criminal physiognomies, the traffic superintendent came'up arid wished them pleasant trip, while poor l)r. Firidlay lost a much-n&ded opportunity for' experiment in ' reform—qui bono?—I am, etc,, ' . , HENRY BODLEY. February 11, 1911. _■' '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 2
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171NOT TRANSFERABLE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 2
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