The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 3 (July 1, 1927)
Two Actors!
Two Actors!
Actor, leaning out of train, to old man tapping wheels: “Ah, still working-that's fine-and at your age.”
Old Man: “Aye. Been at this job for forty years now-and my father at the same job twenty years before me.”
Actor: “That's very interesting-and, tell me, why do you tap the wheels?”
Old Man: “Well, sir, to tell you the truth, I'm durned if I know.”
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Traveller (by way of conversation).“I suppose you've clipped a good many tickets in your time?”
Collector. “Ah! I shouldn't like to say 'ow many I ave clipped.”
Traveller. “Well. I must say you clip them extraordinarily well.”
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