Show FOOLED HIM tho thin man a professional trunk A thin man with a distressing cough as inspecting some portmanteau and trunks in front of a est end chop the oay when the proprietor of the place appeared and asked looking for a portmanteau portman tean sir yes heres alie best thirty shilling bag ever made and I 1 am the only one that sells em 5 xo good replied alie man with a sorrowful shake of his licad one ot these trunks beaud alie journey from liere to bradford ill v m to go round the world take ibold of one and bang it about and convince yourself do you give me leae to test its strength of course I 1 do take hold the man with a distressing cough drew in a full breath called out 1 your leave there as if naming a platform full of passengers and then hold of the trunk hip went the handle bang went tins lock and as he stood it on one end and upset it and hopped it bade again one hinge broke loose and it split in two with a hu st of the r sst lie gave the two halves a slam bang which completed the wreck and a bow to alie beller of portmanteaus he joined the arod and disappeared upon my soul gasped the proprietor etor as he viewed the ruins but I 1 made a mistake in him lies a railway porter instead of a dying travel erl sheffield eng telegraph |