RARE OR COMMON?
Is the following experience of a correspondent a rare or a common occurrence? asks a London paper. A passenger who arrived by train at one of the big London stations handed > light bagl to » porter who seemed ansious to oarry it: when they reached the end of the platform he tendered a sixpenny 1 bit, The porter handed it book with a jrrim»oe. " That won't buy much," said he. No," a'nid tha passenger mildly ;i" bat if, in the oourse of a day's work for whioh you are paid alrendy, you receive a number of sixpences, you can buy a good deal. However, if you're too proud to take it, I'm not too proud to put it back into my pooket." And he did.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 102, 30 April 1921, Page 14
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127RARE OR COMMON? Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 102, 30 April 1921, Page 14
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