THE RAILWAY PORTER’S JOKE. Mrs Hayrick (looking at dial on weigh-ing-machine) : 1 say, is that clock right ? Porter: That ain’t no clock; it’s a weighing-machine. Mrs Hayrick : What do they want with a weighin’-machine here? Porter : So folkswot wants to leave town can get a weigh.’
Indignant Old Gentleman: ‘Yes, sir, lie is nne of those people that sinaek you on the bank before your face, and hit you in the eye behind your back. Ugh !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIV, 2 April 1898, Page 409
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