"Third-class Single to Ruswarp, please, and a Dog-ticket. How much?"
"Fourpence-halfpenny—Threepence for the Dog, and Three-halfpence for yourself."
"Ah! you reckon by Legs on this Line."
NOT A FAIR EXCHANGE.
(An Exercise to be Translated from English into any Foreign Language.)
This is a thoroughly British home. I find chairs, sofas, curtains, and carpets. They all seem to be of British manufacture.
No, they are not of British manufacture. On the contrary, they are all made in Germany.
But surely this window is English? No, it is not English; it is put together in Sweden, and erected by Swiss workmen.
But are not these pictures, these fire-irons, these card-tables, of home growth? No, for the pictures come from France, the fire-irons from Belgium, and the card-tables from Austria.