A GOOD JOKE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 3, 4 February 1890, Page 3

A GOOD JOKE.

The fallowing rather good story we copy from an Otago exchange. On one of the “g> as you please” trains wiiich make slow tim*, and call at roadside stations wffm there is anybody to set down or take up, a solitary passenger, a snuffy old gentleman, occupied the siii'-k ng earring i alone. H; more than once impressed upon tbo guard that ho was to lie told when nicy got (o a certain station—which ■ nay he called Mika-mike, “All right,” said the guard, and then, somehow, forgot all about it. He ouly remembered the Mike mike passenger when the train had run a couple of mile* past the station. However, it w isn’t the express, and after a confabulation with the driver, the trim was ran Sack again “ Mike-miki/’ shout'd th; guard dialing open the door of th.j carriage; “here’s your station.” “ All right, ihanks,” said the passenger, mJdiug benignly, hut s.lowing no lispositi »n to move. “ Tais is Mike-m.ko,” bawled the .g'Uird, “ where y m-have to get oat.” “ Not at all,” replied thi other calmly; *• 1 never siid X wanted tiget oui.” T icn followed a stor.ny e.tpUn aim. -‘I m.-r ly asked you to let me know wneu we.got to. ALno-miki said toe snuffy >ld gentleman, pro lacing from his waistcoat p icket and h d ling up between huger and ihuno a amah round ,*b >x —because when I left home Inis oil »rning my wife to d m • that at Mikemiki siation. I was to he sure and take a pill I" Eaacy the fee dags of that railway Ig an I ah i nature of nis suose pient com n iuicadmi with tne driver,'Woeu o < .■kpUiu fd to aim tnat they lud rau the train back two miles to euable a passengn* to take a .pill! ; :