TROUBLING A POSTMASTER.
A la;.torn-jawed young man stopped at the Post Office last Saturday and yelled out:— "Anything for the Wattaea ?" George Foieet, uur polite postmaster, replied: "Uo there is " Anything for Jane Watts 1" "Nothing." "Anythingfor Ace Watts ]" " No, sir." "Anything for Tom Watts?" "No, nothing." " Anything for' fool Joe' Watts 1" I " No, nor Dick Watts, Jim Watt", nov Sweet Watts, nor any other Waitsei, dead, living, unborn, native, foreign, oiyillsed or uncivilised, savago or barbarous, male or female, white or. black, franchised or disfranchised, naturalised or otherwise. No, there is positively nothing for any oi the Wattses, either individually, severally, jointly, no and forever, one and inseparable." _, The boy looked at the postmaster in astonishment, and said " Please, look if there's anything for John Thomas Wftttsl"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 4 July 1882, Page 3
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129TROUBLING A POSTMASTER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 4 July 1882, Page 3
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