HIS EXPERIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 9 (Supplement)

HIS EXPERIENCE.

Stranger (to hotel proprietor): “Have you at vacancy among your waiters.” Hotel Proprietor: “Well, I don’t know. I suppose I might make a‘place for a man of fine address like you. Have you ever had any experience in waiting?” Stranger: “Well, I should say so. I waited thirteen years to marry a girl, and last week she married another fellow.” - • • * • NO NOVICE. • The first day of his holidays Binks entered the palatial seaside tearooms, and had a ham sandwich. The bill came to 2s 3d, so he eent for the manager. ’‘Well, sir,” explained the manager, •I grant that the sandwich itself might be reasonably priced at fourpence. This, however, is. a high-class establishment. Think of our overhead expenses! Look at the'beautiful pictures on the walls!” Binks paid up, and left. Next day he amiin had a ham sandwich at the same°place. But when the hill came, he placed four coppers on the table. “Not this time, not this time, he chuckled. "I saw your pretty picture# yeeterday.”