Cheering him up. — An old man, who claimed to be 97 years of age, and to have been tinned out of doors by bis son, drew a sympathetic crowd around him at the Central Market yesterday. ' I don't know what is to become of me,' he said in answer to a question. 'I am old, poor, weak, and helpless,' ' Oh, you're all right, old man,' romarked a bystander as ho came forward. ' Can you walk as far as the City Hall ?' ' I—l guess so.' ' Well, go right up there and ask for the Board of Public Works. They'll put you on the street-cleaning foreo and keep you there until you are 150 years old.' ' I don't believe I could do anything.' ' Well, that's just the reason why you'll get the job. Brace up, old man ; twelve shillings a-day ahead for you.'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3245, 24 November 1881, Page 4
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