The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 9 (December 1, 1937.)
Far Away
Far Away.
At a public dinner a man who was a long way down the table would insist on proposing a toast, and though he was not on the toast list, the chairman allowed him to proceed.
“My toast is that of ‘Our Absent Friends’,” he said, “coupled with the name of the waiter who has not been near this end of the table all the evening.”
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