TRAVELLING EXPERIENCE.
At Grand Island, the other day, a passenger found three flies in his tea at the eating-house. He called the waiter to him and said, “ You are in error about me. You evidently think I am travelling in a special car and putting on a great deal of dig. I’m riding secondclass, without baggage, and am only entitled to one fly. Give this cup to that big fat mar at the corner table. He is a director of the road, and is entitled to three flies in his tec and a dead cockroach between his pancakes I cannot travel second-class and usurp the rights of first-class passengers. Please pass the entomological mustard before you go and set the adamantine prunes where I car reach them. I may want to throw one a 1 the head waiter occasionally to attract, his attention.”
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Patea Mail, 13 October 1882, Page 4
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