WHAT HE TRAVELLED IN.
It was in a railway carriage, and the company consisted of several commercial travellers and a staid and pompous old gentleman. Various efforts were unsuccessfully made by the knights of the road to draw their companion into conversation. At length one of them said: "Come. sir. I know you are one of us. Tel] us what you are travelling in.” “Sir.” answered the old gentleman, facing his interlocutor calmly, “I am travelling in very obje tionable and inquisitive company, and the carriage is full of my samples.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 1 December 1906, Page 56
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91WHAT HE TRAVELLED IN. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 1 December 1906, Page 56
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