HOW HE KNEW.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW HE KNEW.

"Excuse me, sir, this is not a smoking-carriage," remarked the Englishman to a the Yankee sitting in the opposite corner of a first-class carriage.

No reply. "I really must trouble you to put out that cigar,", insisted the Britisher, Still no reply.-

"Hang it, sir, if you don't put that cigar out, I'll have you removed." '

Still- superb indifference on the Yankee's part. The train stopped, and tlie Englishman called the guard and requested him to remove the offender; but the latter broke in, coolly : "Guard, examine that man'B tic-ket—it's-third-class."

The. guard did so, and, finding the statement correct, marched the Englishman out, to the great astonishment of the other occupants of the carriage.

After the train had again started, another occupant, unable to restrain his curiosity, asked :- "How did you know what ticket he had ?"

"Saw it sticking out of his waist-coat-pocket," said the Yankee, with a yawn., "Same colour as my own, !■ guess."