ANOTHER PLAIN TRUTH.
Resident of the Square to lad delivering newspaper :— ** Here boy, when I paid your boss a quaiter m advance, he said he was going to make a great show, and give us a splendid paper. And now I've got to buy the Standard to get the news. How is it you've so far behind the Standabd ? " " I don't know, Sir. If we set as much as them one day, we're short ot type for the next two days." "But bless my soul they give over two columns more than you overy day, and yet they only charge the same. I think your boss had me rather." "Very likely, Sir. A good many of the subscribers are saying the same thing these last few days, and swear they'll never pay." " But d n it, he got me to pa/ m advance. He's got my money. That's what's the matter." " Well, Sir, you better speak to him, or the business man." " D n him and the business man both. They won't have me on that lay again, I'll be bound. "With their soft soap, ani their palaver, and their promises about their grand paper, and what they were going to do. . Their old almanac was a fine sprat to catch a mackerel. They won't have this mackerel another quarter, if they offered me their rasr for nothing. You can tell them that, boy." " Yen, Sir."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 40, 15 January 1884, Page 2
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236ANOTHER PLAIN TRUTH. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 40, 15 January 1884, Page 2
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