Exchanging Amenities
A blatant sample of the loud-\oiocd, selfconscious, look-at-mo variety of man took Ids 6eat in a 'bus and called to the conductor -.
■'Does tin-* "bus go all the way?" "Yos, mi\" losponded the conductor politely.
"Doe* it go as far as Oxford street? I want to get out there."
"Yes bir," \va^ the roplj
"Well. I want jou to tell me when we u;et there. You VI better stick a stamp on jour nose, or put a straw in your mouth, or tie a knot in one of \our Jips. so that \ou won't forget it." "It would not lie convenient for one in niN position to do so," said the conductor, courteously, "but if you will kindly pin } our ears round your neck, I think I shall remember to toll you."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 91
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134Exchanging Amenities Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 91
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