A GOOD REASON.
It was Christmas morning, and as Jones stood smoking on the doorstep a scedy-looking individual, wearing a ragged suit and with a red nose, came up the garden path and addressed him thus: “Merry Christmas, guvnor!” “Same to you, my good man.” said Jones. “What can I do for you?” “Well, guv’nor I’ve called for me Christmas box.” “Hum! 1 don’t seem to know you. Are you the dustman?” “No, guv’nor: I’m the Jap who were playing the cornet last Christmas, an’ yer -old me to take my hook. ’ • “Ob! you played the cornet, did you?” said Jones, in a threatening voice. “And why should 1 give you a ( hristmas box, eh?” . “Deecs I ain’t playing it this year,, guv’nor.” Then Jo.’.a.i paid up
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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127A GOOD REASON. Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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