MAKING A PROFIT.
In a commercial room at Midland hotel the other day, a commercial traveller was bragging so much that another sitting quietly in a corner suddenly said: “I think I can test your ability as a tradesman. I’ll sell you for twopence something for which I paid fourpence, and yet I’ll make a profit on the transaction-” The boastful one promptly handed over the twopence, and the other quietly gave him—a fourpenny tramway ticket, which he had used in his journey to the hotel.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1095, 2 March 1911, Page 23
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86MAKING A PROFIT. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1095, 2 March 1911, Page 23
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