WHO SAID SAUSAGES?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 120, 6 May 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHO SAID SAUSAGES?

It wasn’t safe to mention Cambridge sausages to the railway staff at King’s Cross Station. London, for some time after the amusing event which Mr. Brain Stoker deseiilws in his interesting book. '’Famous impostors” (Sidgwick and Jackson). One night two weary porters at: that station were thinking about going home when a breathless, simple-looking countryman rushed up to them with anxious inquiries for a certain train. It had gone. He was emshefl. ‘AViiatever was he to <!o'- He h-ui been sent up from Cambridge with a big hamper of those sausages lor which the University town is celebrated- a very special order. Was there no other train?” "Xo.” The poor follow seemed overwhelmed. "As it is too late to find another market.” he complained, "the whole lot will be spoiled.” Thon a happy thought seemed to -trike- him as more of the railway men gathereil round, and ho inquired ingratiatingly. “Would you care to buv <be sausages 9 It yon would, you could have them for fourpenr-e a pound. If I keep them, they will probalilv go bad lioforc I can dispose of them.” Tin’ idea took—"real Cambridge sansagos” at fourpence a pound were not to- be snoozed at. The dainties, neatlv packed in pounds, went like the proverbial hot -akos. Grateful smile® gnwted the purchasers when they got home: but. alas! no grateful or comforting smell -.-ame from those sausages alter they had boon dinnped into the frying-pan Somehow’ thov wouldn’t sizzle, and closer investigation shewed that the prime Camb'-idge were nothing bat skins stuffed with dry bread.