HE FOOLED THE TELEGRAPH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

HE FOOLED THE TELEGRAPH.

Countryman—That feller in the telegraph office up there thought be wan mighty smart, hut 1 fooled him. Policeman—You did? How? Countryman —Oh, easy enough. Yon see I went in there yesterday to send a message to St. Louis, and told him what I wanted. " All right," sez he, "75 cents." So I paid him the 75 cents, and I'll be darned if he did a thing but rap that old brass clicker of his 15 or 20 times, and then hang the message on a hook. Policeman—Well, do you call that fooling him ? Countryman—You just hold on, and I'll tell you. To-day, I wanted to send another message fco St. Louis, but I'll gosh-damned if I wanted to pay seventy-five cents. So I went up to the office, kinder polite like, and sez I,'"Mister," say I, " there's a young lady outside as sez she wants to speak to you. I'll tend office for you while you're gone." Well, sir, he bit right away. Off he went in a hurry, and before he got back I had plenty of time to clink his old brass machine all I wanted, and hang my message on the hook just as ho did the day before. I know they got it up, too, at the other end, for the minute I got through the old machine "went to clicking like blue blazes, 's much's to say, "All right, old man, we hear you." Oh, I fooled him good, I did. Your Uncle Peter lirea in VVaybaek, but he ain't no fool, he ain't ; not by a long chalk, no-sir-oe! _^__________