NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
"Seamen's return" tlekets are issued by most railways at seaport towns In England to sailors at reduced rates; hut when the other day a somewhat stylishly-dressed young man demanded one to Birmingham, the hooking clerk at the southern seaport I own demurred. "Seamen's returns are only Issued to sailors." he snapped. "Well, I'm n sailor," was the reply. "1 have only your word for that," said the cleih "llow am 1 to know ie is correct V" "How are you to know it?" came the answer. "Why, you leather-necked, swiveleyed son of a sea-coot, If you feel my starhoard boom running foul of your headlights, you'll know I've been doing more than sit on v stool and bleating all my life, mid you'll naul iv your jaw-tackle a bit." The station-master had been standing by. "Give him a ticket," he said. "He's a sailor."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 10
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148NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 10
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