One for the Sandwich-man.
Some little time ago that popular play, "The Sign of the Cross," was being performed in one of the large manufacturing centres. A numbers of sandwich-men had been enI gaged to parade the streets, bearing the usual boards, on each of which was a huge red cross. One afternoon a very smart young fellow expressed his intention of "taking a rise out of that old buffer" — indicating the last man in the melancholy procession. Marching up alongside the sandwich-man i he clapped 1 him on the shoulder, and — i having in mind a very old story — asked: — "I say, old fellow, can you tell me why you're an ass?" "Eh?" "Can you tell me why you're an ass?" repeated the joker. Now, the sandwich-man had heard that story before, and, calmly taking his pipe I from his mouth, he replied: — "Why, it ain't becos I carries the sign o' the cross on my back, but becos I'se foci enough to stop an' reckernise aya v brother in the street. An' you're not lookin' well. Is th© hay a bit oi"f, or hey they stinted your [ carrots this week, or " But the joker had taken to flight.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 99
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200One for the Sandwich-man. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 99
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