A Nice Young Man.
A stout old country lady, with a large parcel, got into a first-class carriage at the Redfern railway-station recently. She was shabbily dreßsed. A porter came to the carriage-window and asked : “ Are you first-class, ma’am ?” “ Well, I’m not exactly first-class, but I’m purty well, thank you,” replied the lady, as the train moved slowly out of the station. And she added to her fellow-passen-gera : “They do say a great dale against them porters, but that’s a nice civil-spoken-youngjman ”
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 61, 29 July 1897, Page 3
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82A Nice Young Man. Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 61, 29 July 1897, Page 3
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