COMEDIAN'S LITTLE JOKE.

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

COMEDIAN'S LITTLE JOKE.

A celebrated comedy actor enlivened the tedium of a long railway journey with a practical joke. Taking advantage of a long wait at a junction, he left the carriage and strolled along the station platform.

Addressing a busy porter he said, "Please tell- me at what time this 1 train will leave."

\ The porter replied, "'3.41, sir," and 1 went on with his work.

A minute or so later the same rail way man was greeted with the remark; "Excuse me, ray man, but what time does this train depart ?" "3.41," said the porter sharply, as I've told you once before."

The actor again entered his compartment; and, addressing the other travellers, said, '"How strangely impolite all railway officials seem," .Tho old gsntleman in the' opposite corner looked up from his paper and m<] that, his experience on that particular lino had been very satisfactory, He'd back 'em against any body of men,

Other passengers also defended the mm as very "obliging and civil." The actor's response was—"Well; I'll try to prove the truth of my suggestion."

Just then his old friend the porter passed the carriage and was greeted '.villi, "Porter, at what timo does this train leave ?"

"Oh, go to the deuce," snapped the worried railwayman in his most fritfd and calculated style. And the jok'er sat back in his corner and purred with deep contcnt."Livcrpool Post."