HE SCORED THAT TIME.
Tramp (enbering)—'Could you let me have a glass of whisky ? I have no coin wid me, bub I'll give you five sbamps if that'll do.' Proprietor (to get rid of him)—' All right (pours out the whisky), here's your whisky.' Tramp drinks ib, smacks his lips, stamps five times on tho floor, and walks towards the door. The grocer shouts to him to como back. Tramp returns. ' What do you want ?' ' My stamps, of course.' ' Didn't I give them to you ?' 'No, of course not.' ' Well, here they are again.' (Stamps five times more.) • Ah, I see ; ha, ha ! Well that's a pretty good joke, bub I'll tell you what I'll do ; I'll give you sixpence to try thab on that fellow aci'O.°9 the street there.' ' Sh ! Why, he just gave mo a shilling to try ib on you.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)
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143HE SCORED THAT TIME. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)
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