Beating a Gas Company.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1917, 18 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Beating a Gas Company.

Wmgings — My gracious I I don't see what is to become of me. Spriggings — What is the matter now ? Wiggings — My gas bill for the three Winter months has just come in. Why, sir, it means ruination. Spriggings— Oh, not at all. I had a gas bill of the same kind, and it just makes me laugh to think how I got the better of the company. They thought I would bankrnpt myself to pay it, but, bless your stars, I did no such thing. Wiggings— Why, how did you work it ? Sprigging — I just moved away and left my house on their hands. Young minds in America grasp great truths quickly. A New York boy who had had a misunderstanding with one of his playmales wag waiting while his mother prepared a green shade for his eyes. 11 Ma," he said, " I wish I was a rich man." "Why, my son?" " Because I'd buy a pistol and shoot 'Jake BoJter." " But you'd be tried for it just as much as if you were a poor man." "Yes, but wouldn't be convicted just as much." By a new law in Arkansas, no saloon can be built within G4O rods of a church. But the natives dodge this law by building the saloon first. Then they erect the church right across the road.