Consoling
Engraving
Passenger: —“What time does the Next Train reach London?”
Porter: —“Five o’clock, Sir.”
Passenger: —“And it’s Three now; and this place is eighty Miles from Town. It must be an Express”
Porter: —“Yes Sir.”
Passenger: —“That’s jolly. I’m glad I’m in time to catch it”
Porter: —“Beg parding Sir; it don’t stop here”
Fun (2 December 1885): 243
Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
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