NOT SO GREEN.
f A recruit for the police, force was' walking- up and down the road, when he picked up a shilling-. Later on he met the serg-eant, and' said : "Look here, sergeant, I've found a shilling-, and I'think it's only right to give it to you." "Yes,' my boy; -any time you find any money you must always give it to me:-", '• .
The sergeant walked away, and presently met" another to whom he said :—■
"Look here, I've got a regular greenhorn under me;' he has found a shilling in the road, and he says anytime he finds any money he will always give it to me. Come along, we will'go and have two six-pennyworths with it." They strolled into the nearest publichouse, and the sergeant gave the order and put down the shilling. '■ The"landlord said:—■ "Look here, sergeant; this shilling is a bad one!" "A bad one!" said the sergeant, who had to pay for the drinks out of his own pocket. He went back to the recruit and •said:— "Look here! the shilling you found and gave me was a bad one!" "Well, sergeant, do you .think I should have been so green as to have given it you if it had been a good one?"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 7
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209NOT SO GREEN. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 7
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