The Wrong Boots.
A soldier of an infantry regiment stationed atChathnm beii.g in need of a pair of boots, and not being able to draw them from the quartermaster, vtrenfc into the shop of a Jew dealer and asked thfi price of a pair lyiny on the counter. " Dese poots ish fifceen shillings," said the df-ai.-r. "Can't give it ; they are too dear," said the soldier. "My grashas ! " pays the Jew, " dey costs me shust fourteen-and-ninepgnce in London. Htr<\ahon" (to a boy;, "pring de invoice of dese fine poots, and show de shiutlemans de price." The invoice was produced, and after gome haggling, which brought do<vn the price confiidfivbly, the soldier bougbt a pair and starred off. He had walked only tie Ifrgth of the street, however, when the *olbb came off. Of course he at once returned to the Jew, and branded him in st r ong military language as a swindler and impostor Tae Jew looked up in amazement at hi- customer, and, putting on an air of well-fe </oe-i astonishment, replied : " Oh ! dern is not infantry poots ; I thought you voa a cavalryman ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 52
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186The Wrong Boots. Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 52
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