A CLEVER RUSE.
PIES, NOT SOVEREIGNS. TO PAY HIS TAILORS.* '\ ' . [By Electric Telegrath—Copyright.! [United Press Association. J (Received 10.0 a.m.) Melbourne, September 30. A clever ruse was worked on a city tailoring firm. A man ordered £6O worth of clothes, which were not delivered. Later, the man visited the shop and stated that he had just com pleted a deal, and asked,the tailor if he would take payment from the firm with whom ho had done business. The tailor agreed, and with the custoraei visited a catering establishment, The customer asked the caterer to give sixty out of his hundred to the tailor. The pair then returned to the tailor’s shop, and the customer received the clothes and departed. Subsequently, the caterer, instead of sixty sovereigns, delivered sixty threepenny pies to the tailor.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 30 September 1913, Page 5
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133A CLEVER RUSE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 30 September 1913, Page 5
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