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Northland Age, Volume 6, Issue 27, 25 March 1937, Page 6

When a surburban train left Auckland the other moi-ning it chanced that there wei’e only two passengers in the smoking compai-tment, a vinegary-faced middle-aged woman and a man smoking his pipe. “Hope you don’t object to smoking, madame?” politely inquired the man. “Yes, I do!” snapped vinegar-face. “No gentleman would smoke in the presence of a ‘lydy’. I shal complain to the guard!” When the guard came along the “lydy” complained bitterly. The guard sized her up. “It’s a smoking carriage,” he said, “You’d better shift.” Furiously angry, she went, threatening to report the guard for insolence. When she had gone, that functionary remarks, “Takes all sorts to make a world—and some of ’em never would be missed! Say that baccy you’re smoking smells good; what is it?” “Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and it is good, so are the other toasted brands, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. No one can reasonably object to any of ’em.” • “That’s right,” said the guard, “where d’ye buy ’em?” “Oh, at any tobacconist’s.” M. 642