YrsreRDAY I stopped at a newspaper seller's pitch to buy a paper. His papers were neatly stacked on-a window ledge, and a young Woman was reading one, But the man himself was absent, I hesitated: then I spoke to the young woman.
I said: "Will it be all right if I put down a penny and take a paper?"
And the young woman replied, in a broad Scottish accent, "Aye, that wull be a' richt. At a motter of fact Ah've borrowed ma copy."
Then she smiled, replaced the paper, and walked on.
This story is absolutely true, on my honour, The manager of the Aberdeen Joke Factory, please copy.—Showman, in the "Daily Herald."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.