THE VICE-REGAL SIGNALMAN.
He just dropped in promiscuous-like upon a local publican last Saturday and asked, for a morsel of bread and cheese. While nibbling the spread in a way that did not betoken dir^jkunger, he quietly remarked that the bread airarcheese racket was only " a stall M by way of introduction, and that he was open to an engagement for all Sunday to stand outside and signal the approach, of the police. Boniface^ smiled benignantly and replied that if anything in that line had to be done around his warehouse he knew how to do it himself. " Well, I won't press the matter," said the applicant sadly as he pushed the plate away, " but you have lost the vice-regalest chance eyer eanie your way. I am a cousin, of Sir William Jervois, and don't you forget it. Good day, sir.
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 146, 30 June 1883, Page 226
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141THE VICE-REGAL SIGNALMAN. Observer, Volume 6, Issue 146, 30 June 1883, Page 226
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