JOKERS THAT PASS.
THROUGH THE BARRICADES. Amongst the stream of passers-ly that render a formal account of .their going as they pass, through the barricades on the Hutt IWad is, the occasional joker, who garnishes his password with an innocent jest or two. Some of these sallies, mostly delivered on tho spur of (lie moment, are rather amusing. "Whore from, plcaso?" inquired the tally clerk of one of those jokers.- "Nowhere/' replied tho flippant one. "I'm just coming back." "Powelka," replied a second joker, in answer to a request for his namo. A third, who was driving through, in a trap, volunteered the information that his destination was Soraes's Island! "What name, please?" a fifth, was asked. "Haven't got one," replied the funny man. "I was lvou in a raffle." ■ A Maori, who had passed through previously, and Riven "his name and destination, was held up a second time. "I give tho namo tho morning before," he protested. "You no want him a?ain." 110 was informed that the morning before was a long time ago, . considering <he nature of the business. "Oh, well," replied the Maori, "my name is the same as it was the other day." Finally ho gave it.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 4
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201JOKERS THAT PASS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 4
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