THE MATCH TRICK
TAKEN DOWN BY STRANGER LEFT WITH EM-PTY BOX He came out of a tobacconist’s proudly, bearing a bright new box of matches. Five minutes- further lip the street a good-looking stranger accosted him and asked if he could oblige with a light. Our friend willingly did -so. After a struggle to protect the flame from the wind, the cigarette was lit, and both* men went their respective ways. A little later our friend thought he too would a smoke, 'but when he drew the matches from his pocket he went dizzy with dismay. The stranger had kept the new box of matches and palmed off bn him an old box containing half a dozen dead ones!.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 31 July 1942, Page 8
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119THE MATCH TRICK Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 31 July 1942, Page 8
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