A PIECE OF PLATE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 8, 21 January 1905, Page 8 (Supplement)

A PIECE OF PLATE.

Four Bradford worthies ’met one morning after continued festivities; but as they could only muster among them one solitary shilling it was given to a man nicknamed

“Pencil” to make the most of, as he was considered pretty sharp. He took it to a pawnbroker’s, where he was well known, and asked the loan of lod on it; the broker thought it a good joke, and gave him a ticket marked “A Piece of silver plate.” Then “Pencil” dud his chums adjourned to a publichouse, the owner of which was known to buy anything. There an animated discussion took place as to the absurdity of pawning such a lint piece of silver plate for such a small sum, the men taking good care the landlord should hear them.

Thinking that a piece of silver plate must lie worth at least five shillings, the landlord offered them that sum for the ticket, which they accepted on condition that he added drinks all round.

Next morning he went and redeemed the ‘plate.”