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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 1, 1929)

Time-Stretchers

Time-Stretchers.

Railway travellers are of two varieties—train-catchers and time-stretchers. Train-catchers call for no comment except that they catch trains, but time-stretchers are ambulating anachronisms who misconstrue the term tempus fugit as meaning “time-for-another.” They likewise believe, probably, that sotto voce is Alcoholese for “the voice of the drunkard,” that a bigamist is a big-game hunter, and that a basinette is a musical instrument. When you pause to consider the matter they are seen to be not altogether in error.

“A Trip on the Railway.”

“A Trip on the Railway.”