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Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 916, 1 February 1918, Page 8

Dear Free Lance,—This prohibition: can tbe any good to some necessary - trades. Was one of several in a barber's waiting for soap and razors to more or less restore the smoothness of babyhood to battered dials, when I noticed there was only one operator instead of two carvers on the job. There was a man m the untended chair getting restless after a 10-minute wait, when in came Barber No, 2 with a bigsuit case. "Had a good time up. there?" asked a "regular." "Pretty right," said Shaver the Second, "but that rail ride over the Rimutakas is a cow." The man in the operating chair sat up: "Say, mister, have you just come down from Masterton?'" "Yes, been up there four or five "Then, by cripes, you ain't goin' totry and shave me," said-tlie man, getting out of the chair. "I was only there 24 hours to arrange me mother-in-law's funeral. Of course, I had a few to celebrate the happy event, and got too shaky to see it. Masterton f Booze! Disappointment! Blime! And he went out." "Poor chap," observed the barber; ' 'must have struck rotten stuff. And there's the finest and cheapest whisky in New . Zealand to be had there if you've got any friends." And his hand was quite steady when shaving me.—Yours, etc., Shaver: