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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 12 (March 1, 1938.)

Gullible's Travels

Gullible's Travels.

Once having had your mind made up for you you get down to business.

It is every man's ambition to “travel light,” and every woman's determination to take everything except the grand piano.

Thus Scene 1, entitled “packing,” may be described in the script as follows:

“Room in wild confusion; fifteen trunks and seven hat boxes strewn willy-nilly and all-to-glory. Wife enters, leff, and dumps armful of clothes in trunk. Husband enters, right, and undumps them. Wife explains why they are necessary. Husband explains why they're not. Conversation swiftly moves to topics of a painfully personal nature. Dog walks in, left centre, and goes to sleep on clothes. Scene closes with husband repacking all clothes in all trunks.”

Briefly, that is the story of the packing, but there is more to it, far, far, more. Many a man has resisted the call of the wide open spaces solely because he has dreaded the call of the wide open suit cases. Most men could travel to Tartary and back with nothing more than two pairs of socks, a toothbrush and corkscrew, but when they take their wives—well, you know, brothers, you know!