Paid Him Out.
A man who was evidently from the country had occasion recently to go out to one of our large towns on a matter of business. The morning after his ■arrnal he was going to keep an appointment, when he lost his way. Greeting the first policeman he met he asked him for information. "How can I best reach street?" was the countryman's question. "Oh !"' replied the policeman, who always thought himself exceedingly smart, "you can take a cab. or you can take a 'bus; or, as it is only about 200 yards from here, you can walk." "Ah, yes,'' said the other, smiling, _as though he wished to show an appreciation of the joke, "I know I can walk, but what I want to know is the way." ''Now, that's different," responded the policeman, with an air of superiority. He then i-r B ceded to give the necessary directions, and the countryman put his hand into his poclcet as if to find a tip. "Will you ta.ke a drink?" 'he asked, and the constable expressed his readineps to do so. '"Well." the countryman continued, "you had better go- and get one, and you can either pay for it yourself, or you can get someone else to way for it, or take it without paying at all."
Paid Him Out.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 87
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