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Tramp-like Visitor: "Merry Christmas, guv'uor." Jones: "Sara* to you, my good man. What can I do you for?" "Well, guvnor, I've called fer me Christ-mas-box." "Hum! I don't seem to know you. Are you the dustman?" "No, guvnor. I'm the chap who were playing the cornet larst Christmas, an' yer told me to take my hook." "Oh, you played the cornet, did you?" said Jones, in a threatening voice. "And why should I give you a Christmas-box, eh?" "Becos I ain't playing it this year* guvnor."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1927, Page 27
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