The Wrong Ticket.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 28 April 1884, Page 2

The Wrong Ticket.

[Melbourne Bulletin.]

There is still work round this city for the Salvation Army. Last week the town wns full of visitors from the country owimr to the big Masonic 9vent, and one provincial, unused to onr 'bus sy>tt»m, got into a Ho ham vehicle m mistake for Northcote. He dropped his 3d into the box bafore discovering bid mistake, and unsuccessfully tried to get tbe fare retm'ned. 'No money returned,' said the driver, and muttering sfcranjje oaths the visitor changed for another 'bus, only to find, after again contributing to t^e company's receipts, that his new conveyance was on the way to Brunswick, ftfore Bwearinjr \ but next time a certainty was made of matters by the perplexed one assuring himself that he was right by enquiry before risking a third 3d bit. Still, however, the recollection of his late experience necessitated further relief by more string language, when his neighbor, a clergyman, offered a rebuke m the question, 'my trood man, do you know where you are going to V l No.' ' Well you- ato going straight to Hadps.' Whereupon the much harassed traveller swung on to the check (?trnp attain as he speculated, ' ht'ro driver stop the 'bue and let mo out, I am an unlucky beggar, I have got into the wrong coach again !'