He Meant to Catch the Train.
Not long ago a tinker named Watkins was travelling from Rugby to Bristol, via Birmingham. Finding that his train would not reach the latter place until just too late for the Midland train that was starting for Bristol, a happy thought occurred to him. He wired to the Birmingham otationmaster : " Keep the Midland train waiting for me.— Watkin," leaving out the " s " at the end of his name. When he got to the Birmingham station he put his head out of the window and saw the statiohmaster with four porters behind him expecting to 'see the great railway man, Sir Edward Watkin. It is said that when the stationmaster discovered the facts of the case he executed a dance that would have made his fortune in a pantomine, but being of a humorous turn he speedily calmed down, and enjoyed the joke quite as much as the tinker enjoyed the journey.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2058, 3 August 1893, Page 49
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157He Meant to Catch the Train. Otago Witness, Issue 2058, 3 August 1893, Page 49
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