TAKEN AT HIS WORD
Fhe stout and selfish traveller snapped, 'flint sent is taken!” when another would-be messenger sought to move n handbag from the oopoflite seht. “My—er—friend Will be back presently,” he added, in response to the other’s lifted eyebrows. The other man meanwhile stood near the carnage door. At last the guard Mew his whistle and the train started With a bound he was back in the carriage, and before the other man could lift an arm had flung tho handbag on to. the platform. -"How dared you do that?” demanded the selfish traveller. "Because your friend has lost his train, there’s no need for him to lose hie bag as well!” was tho reply.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12596, 5 November 1926, Page 4
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