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m ♦— A gentleman a short time ago was a passenger on board a steamer plying between tbe fashionable watering-places of Blackpool and Southport. Feeling rather lonely, and wishing to engage in conversation with someone, be approached one of the sailors and paid to him: — " We have a very smooth sea this morning—it is like a sliwt of glass. You don t alwaya have it like this?" " No, sir," wae the answer ; " but you see as how they knowed as jou were coming to-clnv, so the authorities at Blackpool telephoned to the Corporation at Southport, and they at once ordered out the steamroller and rolled the sea down for the occasion. Tltat is bow it is so smooth." The gentleman, retired to the end of the vessel, and it was some time before he recovered himself.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7890, 21 December 1903, Page 3
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