The ‘Rights’ of Our Railway Companies

The ‘Rights’ of Our Railway Companies (II)

“The latest from the same Company: — ‘Very sorry gents, but I have strict orders to poke this little chimney under the nose of everybody as looks over the line, to prevent them thinking they ’ave a right to do it twenty years hence.’”

Engraving

Fun (31 July 18778): 44

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