HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT A TICKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1146, 28 February 1884, Page 3

HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT A TICKET.

A traveller writes to the London Truth : ' Perhaps the following story may be interesting to some of your renders if they should ever be under the necessity of travelling without a ticket: The other day on ■ Railway, anian got into one of the carriages and presently began talking to a fellow passenger. After a time he asked the gentleman whether he had heard the story about how a man travelled without a ticket. The gentleman said he had not, so the man asked him to lend him. his ticket so that he might show him how it was done. He began fiddling about with it, and pretended thai the story had suddenly slipped out of his head, but that he would be sure to remember it soon. After a time the train got near London, and as the man still could not remember the story, he returned the gentleman his ticket. This struck the gentleman as being very curious, and so he watched the man. When *he man got to the barrier and was asked for his ticket, he said he hid given it up, but the ticket collector denied it, and after a good deal of altercation, the man pulled some silver from his pocket and was about to pay for his fare, when he suddenly said, producing a small piece of ticket, that would prove ihat he had given up his ticket, because he remembered playing about with it in the train and tearing off a small piece, and that if the ticket'co!lector look d he would find a ticket with the piece torn off." On looking the ticket collecior fouud a ticket with til's piece torn off, and of course immediately begged the man a thousand pardo n B.'