The Archive · 1938

Wrong Address

Aw assistant in the Post Office was trying A explain something to a slightly-deaf old lady.

A red-faced man dashed in and demanded a stamp. The assistant looked at him, then continued with the lady. "I say," the man shouted, "Ive a train to catch."

The clerk turned to him and said quietly, "Did you say you had a train to catch?"

"I did" came the reply.

"Well" the clerk continued, "its a railway station you want not a Post Office.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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