A certain well-known Scot had won a big prize in an art union, and had bought himself a very superior car, and hired a chauffeur to go with it. One day a friend noticed that the new car was fitted with a taxi-meter. “What on earth,” he asked, “have you got that meter on your car for?” ‘“Why, mon,” came the reply, “it cheers me to see all the money I might have been spending.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 9
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75Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 9
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