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NZ Truth, Issue 111, 3 August 1907, Page 6

It seems to be the idea of * o ne Johnnies that the girl who works the beer engine is morally a sort of first cousin to the girl who earns her daily crust by saying "Goodnight, old hoy." A local tram conductor, who imagines that he is the only lion after Daniel when -j;iri.s are about, got this idea m his Thiiiki nobox and tried to put the theory into practice recently.. He invited a fair and buxom Hebe to spen-1 an. evening at Fuller's and thought th-re was no blight 0:1 the turnip crop when the girl consented. Th-oy met about an hour before show time and wandered up towards Mount Victoria to fill m the time. Just before entering upon the secluded slope of that lovers' paradise life '-Fares please" man made a proposal to the lady m as cold-blooded' and passionless a manner .as he wcukl demand a penny from any ordinary laborer ridina; on his car. The lady was naturally knocked siily a .t such a monstrous nnd indelicate proposition and asked whst. be meant. The carman seemed to \:o equally flabbergasted to think Ihat he could "be possibly refused, nn;l he asked iri "a brutal mrnner, "What the h . do you think I brought you cut for. Do you think I brin* r.o much cus'.-.m to your bar for nr.i-bing ?" That settled ' the nccjuainlancsshin.'" The girl just slopped him on. iln fire and streaked for the city. ' \c?, vine: poor Lothario Hiinkino: linrd , over the fact Ih.it a maid mus/; be \voocd to be wen-; V