COMEDIAN'S LITTLE JOKE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2786, 27 September 1910, Page 7

COMEDIAN'S LITTLE JOKE.

A celebrated comedy actor enlivened the tedium of a long railway journey with a practical joke. Taking advantage of a long wait at a junction, he left the carriage and strolled along the station platform.

Addressing a busy porter he said, "Please tell me at what time this train will leave."

The porter replied, '"3.41, sir," and went on with his work. A minute or so later the same railway man was greeted with the remark, "Excuse me, my man, but what time does this train depart ?" "3.41,," said the porter sharply, as I've told you once before." The actor again entered his compartment, and, addressing the other travellers, said, "How strangely impolite all railway officials seem." The old gentleman in the opposite corner looked up from his paper and said that his experience on that particular line had been very satisfactory. He'd back 'em against any body of men. Other passengers also defended the men as very "obliging and civil." The actor's response was—"Well ; I'll try to prove the truth of my suggestion." Just then his old friend the porter passed the carriage and was greeted with, "Porter, at what time does this train leave ?"

"Oh, go to the deuce," snapped the worried railwayman in his most frigid and calculated style. And the joker sat back in his corner and purred with deep content. - "Liverpool Post."