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Show One of the neatest bits of tit for tat that we have heard for many a day occurred on the Southern Pacific train the other morning. A certain lawyer of this city, well known for his powers of repartee, had been down to Salina to try a case. Returning to town the conductor, one of the new swaggering set imported from the East, was very impertinent in his manner because the lawyer was rather tardy in producing his ticket when called for to be punched for about the twentieth time. Somewhat ruffled, the lawyer remarked to a friend next to him, "The Southern Pacific shall never see a cent of my money after this." "Going to foot it up and down from now on, eh?" sneered the conductor. "No, no," replied the lawyer, quietly, "instead of buying my ticket at the office I shall pay my fare to you."-San Francisco News Letter. |