"THIRTEEN AT TABLE."
"Did you ©ver sit down at a table where there were just thirteen?" asked a man of his companion in a railway carriage. "Once," replied the latter. "Well, you never observed that any bad luck followed it, did you?" "Why, yes. Bad luck for most of the thirteen." "Any of them die?" "Not that I know of. Never heard of any of them dying." "Not enough victuals to go round ? queried the other. "Who's tttlking about victuals? There wasn't any victuals." "Thought you said you sat down to a table where there were thirteen persons?" "That's what I said. The table was in a lawyer's oflice. It was a meeting* of my creditors. There, were twelve of them. I was the other 'man." Thero was a long pause, and then the first speaker enquired — "In what way did the nueting prove unlucky, if I may as-li!" "None of them ever got a shilling from me," answered the other, heaving a deep sigh as he left the carriage.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1906, Page 10
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