McTavish had a new cash register. One day an old friend came into his shop, bought a cigar, and noticed that McTavish pocketed the money. “Why not ring it up?" he asked. “You’ll be forgetting it." “Oh, I’ll nae forget it,” said McTavish. “Ye ken, I keep track in ma head until I get a pound, and then I ring it up; it saves wear and tear.” A London bus had just stopped and the conductor, looking across the road, noticed a man awaiting a bus going suburb-wards. H?. was apparently a musician, for he was holding a harp with one hand. In the other hand, however, he had a new garden spade. "Oy, George!” bawled the conductor to a newsvendor standing on the pavement. “Look at this bloke; ’e’s backed ’imself both ways!”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 8
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