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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 15

When a suburban train left Auckland the other morning it chanced that there were only two passengers in the Smoking compartment, a vinegaryfaced middle-aged woman and a man smoking his pipe. "Hope. you don't object to smoking, madame?" politely inquired the man. "Yes, I dol" snapped vinegar-face. "No gentleman would smoke in the presenee of a *lydy.' I shall complain to the guardl" When the guard ca-me along the 'lydy' coinplained bitterly. The gUard sized her up. "It's a smoking carriage," he said, "You 'd beiter shift." Furiously angry she. went, threatehing to "report" the guard fot insolencO. Wlien she's gone fliat futtctionary remarks: "Takes all sox'ts to make a world — and some of 'em never would be missed! Say that baccy vou're smoking smells good; what is it?" "Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and it is good, so are the other toasted brands, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. No one can reasonably object to any of 'em." "That's right, I reckon," said tho guard, "where d'yo buy 'em?" "Oh, at any tobacconist's."*