TOOK HIS BREATH AWAY.
A dapper little man was making his exit from the dining-room of a fashionable hotel, when the head waiter stepped up to him, took him by the arm and said: “ I have tumbled to your little game, you rascal. This is the fourth time you’ve bad your dinner here without paying.”—“ Sir!” exclaimed the little man, breaking loose from the waiter’s grasp, and looking the official sternly in the face, “ you are mistaken. It is the fifteenth.” Before the waiter had recovered from
the shock the man was in the next street.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 999, 29 April 1909, Page 21
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96TOOK HIS BREATH AWAY. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 999, 29 April 1909, Page 21
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