THE LAST STRAW.
1 ''Yes,” said the Yankee, who stood !: on the upper deck of a Cunarder ' i leaving Liverpool, "England is the cussedest corner for tips I ever 1 struck. I’ve been rooked at every 1 turn for the last month, but," he added, savagely, "the last try-on was a bit more than I could stand.” "What was that ?’’ inquired the j man, to whom the remark was ad- j dressed. "Well," said the Yank, "I had tip- ; ped every man from the Captain of the House of Lords down to the man that gummed the wrong labels on my luggage, and I went into the waiting- j room on the landing stage to wash I my hands of everything English, and ; what, do you think stared me in the j face when I was finished but "Please TIP The Basin.” I’m hanged if I did !” __________
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 8
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147THE LAST STRAW. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 8
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