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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 8 (December 1, 1928)

Chapted II

Chapted II.

In the little village of Geegeeville, Bill was regarded as the Intelligentiary of the village. Not only by the gentry, but also by the gents, the gentlemen, and by the people generally.

Bill's bedside poet was Omar Khayyam, and what man, woman, or child in the village had not been cheered and inspired by Bill's favourite quotation:

“Some for a costly limousine will mourn; Some hope, a little coupe, to adorn;

Ah, take the train, and let the motor go,

Nor heed the honking of a distant horn.”

It was when the Geegeeville Debating Society got held up over a dispute as to the correct meaning of the word “railsitter” that Bill Buddle brilliantly demonstrated his right to retain the intelligential title.