The Scotsman staying on the twelfth floor of an American skyscraper looked out of the window and saw what he thought was a threepenny-bit. He ran down to the next floor and it looked like a sixpence. On the next floor it seemed to be a shilling, and on the next a half-crown. He took the lift to the ground floor, ran out, and found — a dustbin lid!
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 5
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