WHAT HE EXPECTED.
"I want -a whisky-and-soda, but I ; cton't suppose you'd care to change ' tliis five-pouiitl note?" remarked a > well-dressed- young man to a; publican. i "All right, sir, I'll change it. i Here you are, sir," replied the brisk : retailer of spirits. ! "Ah, that's good!" said the cus- < tomer, v/hen he had swallowed the , liquor. "Yes," rejoined the innkeeper, « hastily, "but this note isn't; this is, rfo good at all!'? . \ "Ah!" responded the swindler, calmly; "I said; you wouldn't care to change it." ?
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1913, Page 6
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85WHAT HE EXPECTED. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1913, Page 6
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