The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 8 (November 1, 1935)
Just a Correction
Just a Correction.
A weary telegraph agent stationed many miles from nowhere in the Sudan, Africa, in the hottest part of summer wired his superior officer: “Please relieve me, can't stay here, am surrounded by lions, elephants, and wolves.” The officer heartlessly wired back: “There are no wolves in the Sudan.” Whereupon the weary one replied: “Referring to my wire of yesterday, cancel wolves.”
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