THE DECOY DECOYED.
The dinner was over, and the last man to leave the cloak-room saw Pat, the custodian of the coats, looking very miserable. "Well. Pat," he said, "What's the matter? Haven't they paid you very wen for looking after the things?" "Shure, sor," replied the dejected one, "it isn't that they haven't paid me, but, begorra, they've taken the bob I put in the plate as a decoy!"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 97, 14 October 1911, Page 11
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70THE DECOY DECOYED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 97, 14 October 1911, Page 11
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