WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR

New Zealand Tablet, 29 August 1912, Page 62

WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR

» » ***-< • » *■ »-<V v iVJ E vv I\ A passenger who escaped uninjured from a serious railway smash, seeing a fellow-traveller searching anxiously with a lantern, offered to assist in the search, and, thinking the old man had lost his wife, asked in sympathetic tones: ‘ What part of the train was she in?' Raising his lantern and glaring at the kindlydisposed passenger, the old man shouted with indignant distinctness that triumphed over physical infirmity: ‘She, sir! She! lam looking for my teeth! ’