When the Aberdeen Express Goes By.

There was a circus in Newcastle. Two little fellows had a threepenny piece each, but the admission was sixpence. One of them had a bright idea: “Let's put them on the railway line and get them flattened out,” he said, “and they'll look like sixpences.” So they placed them on the line and waited till a train passed, but alas! when they went to get the coins there was nothing there. The train happened to be the Aberdeen Express.

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