HOW TO TRAVET WITHOUT A TICKET.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 28, 12 July 1890, Page 20

HOW TO TRAVET WITHOUT A TICKET.

The other day, on a certain railway, a man got into one of the cars, and presently began talking to a fellow passenger. After a time, he asked the gentleman whether he had heard the story about how a man travelled without a ticket. The gentleman said he bad not ; so the man asked him to lend him his ticket, that he might show him how it was done, and began fiddling about with it, but pretended that the story had suddenly slipped out of his head, but that he would be sure to remember it soon. After a time, the train got near Christchurch, and, as the man still could not remember the story, ne returned the gentleman his ticket (after tearing a bit off of it) and started for the door. This struck the gentleman as being very curious, and so he watched the man. When he was reached by the conductor and asked for his ticket, he said he bail given it up ; but the conductor denied it, and after a deal of altercation, the man pulled some silver out of his pocket, and was about to pay his fare, when he suddenly said—producing a small piece of a ticket —that he could prove that he had given up his ticket, because he remembered playing with it in the train and tearing off a small piece, and that if the conductor looked he would find a ticket with a piece torn off. On looking, the conductor found a ticket with a piece torn off, and of course accepted the man’s statement.