It was a bitterly cold night, and the traveller had just drawn his flask from his pocket when the train stopped at a little country station and the door opened. "Tickets, please," said the shivering collector, with a longing look at the flask. "00, aye," observed the traveller as.he fumbled in his pockfits. "Wull ye tak' a nip?" The ticketcollector looked up and down, and as the coast seemed clear ho remarked that he didn't mind if he did. Tho traveller handed him his ticket. "Tak' it oot o' that, then," was all he said and lie transferred hio attention to tho flask. Mr. 1 ? . P. Welch, labour agent, llasterton, minim nmrriod took, couples, station hands, navvies, gurdeuors, bullook "Mr.er, etc.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 9
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121Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 9
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