Customer. "May I look at that twelve-guinea suit in the window? (Catching sight of ticket) Good gracious! It's twelve pounds thirteen now."
Tailor. "Yessir—a bright little notion of ours, if I may say so. A ticker attached, like those things in the taxicabs, to keep the price up-to-date."
"Straying.—Wm. ——, for allowing three houses to stray on the highway, was fined 20s."—Local Paper.
In these days landlords cannot be too careful.
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