In The Tram.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 22 August 1913, Page 1

In The Tram.

Tl l lady in Ihe offside c< >rner I s §sed i I truculent air and a discoloured I eye, I ‘‘Funny thing anyone can't I every- 1 remarked, fixing a small gentle- [I rnan, wearing grey side-whiskers { and a fashionable shining top-hat, with her normal optic. The small gentleman suddenly became intere-ted in an advertisement of "The Strand Magazine. ” “ If anybody can’t ‘ave a black eye without Tom, Dick, and ‘.Arry askin’ questions, things! are coinin’ to a pretty pa-s,” | continued the lady. Silence, allied with more advertisement study, though eminently die reel, was ineffective. "Von I’m a talkin’ to’’ —the lady prodded the small gentle- i man’s knee with her umbrella. Din settin’ there this hist ten miniites. y u ave. been wonderin' if ‘u -ban* give it me. If it’il ease yer mind, ’e did. Is there any think else?” M .dam '* tiie small gentleman commenced, “had I been your husband ” 1 should *a ’ got off at the c?n|etery with a wreath instead o’ g in’ ter the ’ orsepital with a visa >r’s ticket,’’ snapped the lady “.mid the wreath wouldn’t ‘a’ b’n’Jexpi.n.sive neither, ”