it Didn't Pay.
A well-known public man who is a little hard of hearing, sometimes attempts to save himself from annoyance by pretending to be more deaf than he is.
At a meeting one day, this man auxf approached by an acquaintance who, he had reason to believe, was about to bore him with his tale of woe. The new-comer said in a low voice, which the others present could not hear — ■
" Will you kindly lend vns a sovereign? " " What do you say? " asked the public man, in a tone which ho thought would detor tho applicant from repeating his request in the presence of so many ; but tho man in a voice which drew the attention oi everybody within hearing distance— " Will you be so good as to lend me a ci\i;")i" of sovereigns pleaso? " The public man was ashamed to refuse. " Why, certainly," he said, and gave the other the money. As the borrower went away, the lender looked after him bitterly, and said with a sigh — "Thij'll be a lesson to me. I'd have saved a clear pound if I'd heard him the first time ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 53
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188it Didn't Pay. Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 53
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