ALL CHANGE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

ALL CHANGE.

"I've nothing else, and you'll have to take it," said the consequential little man in tho tramcar. " But we ain't supposed to change half-sovereigns.' 1 sr.ul the conductor. "Can't he'p that,'" haid the passenger; "you'll have to find change, that's all. I'm not going to get ofT." A man in the corner with a big black bag •beckoned to the conductor; there as a whispered confab., and a smiling conductor returned to the wealthy passenger. "A gentleman lino offered to give you the change," he said. " Ha, ha ! So you had to climb down ;ind find change, niter all, my lino fellow-—<>li ? Well, here s tho halfsovereign.'' It was live minutes before lie got his change. When the conductor brought it. it was in n doub'o handful. "There you are, sir!" he And, dump ng down ll'J pence and a penny ticket upon the cantankerous one. lie left him to gasp out his expostulation*. The man with the black bag wa.s art automatic collector.