"NOT TAKEN HERE."
A bio chap with half a bushel of vhiskers sauntered up to the stamp clerk's window m the post-office yesterday with a letter m his band, and his eye at once caught the sign : ' Canada money not taken for stamps. 1 Reading it over twice to be sure that be was right, be said to the clerk : ' Can I buy some stamps with Canada money ?' The clerk pointed to the sign. • Young man, won't Canada money buy postage stamps here V continued the man. •What does that sign say?' replied the clerk. '• I domand to know/ persisted the man, raising his voice a good deal — ' I demand to know if Canada money won't buy postage stamps' at this ' window?' ' No, sir, it won't.' ' Do you tell me that if I hand you a Canadian dollar bill yon won't give me stamps for it V 1 1 do, sir.' • Well, I wouldn't if I were you,' quietly observed the stranger as he laid down three Yankee cents for a letter stamp and humbly received and licked it on.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1081, 29 May 1879, Page 3
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180"NOT TAKEN HERE." Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1081, 29 May 1879, Page 3
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