TOO MUCH TO LOSE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 279, 23 November 1912, Page 6

TOO MUCH TO LOSE.

Pat had worked hard and well for '■ some years in the service of his ! master, and now it struck the latter I that it was time to raise the man's ' pay. i

"Pat, ' he said, "yonr wages are : now five-pence an hour, are they ! riot?" J "Tis, sir!" .' . ''Very well, I will raise them to sixpence an hour in future." j _ "Shtop a minute, son-1" exclaimed ; Pat. , "If. I lose two hourse will I lose j a shilling?" i "Why, certainly!" J "Bedad, thin," cried Pat, with sud- ; don decision, "I don't want a rise at i all, at all! Faith, an' I lose ten- ; pence as it is now!" >