The 'Frisco Barber
An Australian business man who returned from a trip to the United States- a little while ago says that among a certain class of Americans ignorance is appalling. To them the i world is bounded by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans', the. Canadian frontier, and the Panama Canal. The Sydnevsider went into a barber's shop in San Francisco for a haircut. "You re a stranger in these parts, I guees?' < said the barber. "Yes, from Australia," was the reply. The barber thought deeply before lie asked, "How long .hev you been in Amur-r-icaP When lie was told three weeks he fairOily (gasped. "Three weeks! You don's say. Gee, but you ve picked up the English language pretty quick!
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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121The 'Frisco Barber Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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