A CLOSE SQUEAK.
Stout Max : * Now, sir, if you don’t explain your words I shall stick you up against that wall and thrash you within an inch of your life. You said I was becoming a beast!’ Lean Man (evidently guilty):, ‘Nos—nos—no, sir, I doddod-didn’t!’ Stout Man : ‘ You paltry prevaricator, you did ! Johnson swears you told him so.' Lean Man : ‘ It’s a crack crack-crammer. I only said that—that—(happy inspiration)—that you were becoming obese. Thought it would be vulgar to say you were getting fat.’
Stout Man: ‘Oh, that alters it, then. Johnson must have misunderstood you. Come and have a drink !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 264
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101A CLOSE SQUEAK. New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 264
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