HIS PLAIN STORY WON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1900, Page 856

HIS PLAIN STORY WON.

An ungroomed man slouched up to Fd. I*. Smith in Farnum-street the other day and accosted him as follows: “Say, mister, if T was to tell you that 1 wanted a 1/ to get a square meal you'd think I wanted it to buy whisky, wouldn't you?” “That's exactly what T would think,” replied Smith. “And if I said I wanted a 1/ to buy whisky you’d say you didn’t propose to encourage the drink Habit, wouldn't you?” “That’s what I’d say.” “And if I said I wanted a 1/ to buy food for a starving wife and eleven children you’d think I was a liar, wouldn't you?” “J would.” “Well, say, mister. I want a 1/ to pay fer having me mother-in-law’s trunk hauled to the depot. Do f get it?” Smith effected a. compromise by parting with a sixpence.