“The alleged Accident on the Great Northern railway.
“To the Editor of the Times.
“Sir,—My attention has been called to a letter in the Times of yesterday (signed ‘Thomas Waddington, M.D., of Wakefield’) the signature of which is as gross and impudent a fabrication as the circumstances which the writer professes to detail. I need only say there is no ‘M.D.’ here
named Waddington but myself, and that I was not on the Great Northern or any other Railway on the 26th inst, when the accident is alleged to have occured.
Having obtained possession of the original letter, I have handed it to my solicitors, in the hope that they may be enabled to discover and bring to justice the perpetrator of this very stupid hoax.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Edward Waddington, M.D.
Wakefield, March 28.
A’PENNY A MILE.
Two costers were looking at a railway time-table.
“Say, Jem,” said one of them, “vot’s P.M. mean?”
“Vy, penny a mile, to be sure.”