Why They Smiled.
He "was a very nice young man, and was got up in the highest style of art. He sat in the tramcar.. and regarded with evident admiration a pair of very positive, very loudlychecked, and very new trousers, which he pulled up carefully at the knees to prevent any tendency to bagging. The car rattled and clattered along, and all the passengers gazed into upward vacancy. like all tramcar passengers do. Finally a fair maiden, who sat opposite the young man caw something and giggled, after the faehion of her kind. Then she looked at the nice young -man and giggled again, then she nudged her fair companion, and the fair companion gazed across the car, looked at the young man, and giggled. A small boy followed their looks, stared at something-over the young man's head, and he, too, laughed quietly.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 63
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144Why They Smiled. Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 63
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