NOT A LYING COMPETITION.
Told in the commercial room of the hotel' in a small country town. First Commercial : "I have done well here for a small place like this. My orders for to-day come close on £700. Chorus : " That's good — very good. You have done well." Second Commercial (who had not spoken before, looking over the top of his paper) : "Oh, it is wonderful what one does in a small place sometimes. Why, my last journey down here my discounts came to just over what you say your orders come to today." First Commercial: "Excuse me, sir ; this is not a lying competition." Second Commercial (disappearing behind his paper) : "I beg your pardon, I thought it was."
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 620, 10 August 1899, Page 3
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