YOUNG MAN WHO WAS TOO CLEVER BY HALF.
The clever young man was wandering up and down the platform of the railway station, intent on finding an smpty carriage in the express, which was almost due to start. But in vain. Assuming an official air, he stalked up to the last carriage, and cried in a stentorian voice :
" All change here : this carriage is not going." There were exclamations low but deep from the occupants of the crowded compartment ; but nevertheless they hurried out of the carriage and packed themselves away in other parts of the train. The smile on the face of the young man was childlike as he settled himself comfortably. " Ah," he murmured, " it's a grand thing for me that I was born clever ! I wish they'd hurry up and start."
By and by thn station-master put his head in the window and said : " I suppose you're the smart young man who told the people this carriage wasn't going ?"
" Yes," said the clever one, and he smiled. " Well," said the station-master, with a grin, "it isn't. The porter heard you tolling the people and so he uncoupled it. He thought you were a director."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 363, 24 May 1911, Page 7
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197YOUNG MAN WHO WAS TOO CLEVER BY HALF. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 363, 24 May 1911, Page 7
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