AN ODD COMPLAINT.
A losing gambler, cashing oat of Crockford’s at three o’clock on a summer morning, saw a stout man with his foot raised on the post at the corner, engaged in the very peaoeable and proper act of tying his shoe. The gambler ran at the stout man kicked his anonymous quarter, and upset him. The stout man rose in astonishment at the outrage, and more in sorrow than in anger, exclaimed, “ What’s that foe ? I was only tying my shoe at that post.” “ Only tying your shoe at that post,” roared the other in a frenzy of rage, “ you are always tying your shoe at that post.”
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 9, Issue 78, 30 September 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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110AN ODD COMPLAINT. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 9, Issue 78, 30 September 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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