CURIOSITY REWARDED.
It was a moonlight evening, and Jenkins was smoking a fine-flavoured Havanna, when he met a friend. “Have a cigar?” he inquired. “Thanks,” said the other, gratefully, taking and lighting the profered weed.
After a few experimental puffs however, the friend removed the cigar from his lips, looked at it dolefully, and, with a very evident abatement of gratitude in his tone, asked:—
“What do you pay for these cigars?”
“Two for one and twopence,” replied the original proprietor of both weeds, taking his own cigar out of his mouth and looking at it with considerable satisfaction. “This cost me a shilling, and that twopence.”
The conversation stopped at this point, and a cloud conveniently shut off the moonlight.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 23
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121CURIOSITY REWARDED. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 23
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