THE LAST STRAW.
“Yes,” said the Yankee, who stood on the upper deck ot a Cunarder leaving Liverpool, “ England is the cussedest corner for tips I ever struck. I’ve been rooked at every turn for the last month, but,” he added, savagely, “the last try-on was a bit more than I could stand.” “What was that?” inquired the man, to whom the remark was addressed. “ Well,” said the Yank, “ I had tipped every man Irom the Captain of the House of Lords down to the man that gummed the wrong labels on my luggage, and went into the waiting room on the landing stage to wash my hands of everything English, and what dp you think stared me in the face when I was finished but ‘ Please Tip The Basin ? ’ I’m hanged if I did.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 370, 9 April 1908, Page 4
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135THE LAST STRAW. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 370, 9 April 1908, Page 4
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