Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1915 — Canny Scot. [ARTICLE]

Canny Scot.

When electric tramcars first started in his native town a canny Scot got on one, intending to make the full journey, costing three pence, but only took a penny ticket and renewed it twice at the end of each stage. On the last stage the conductor remonstrated with him, saying he ought tc have taken out a three-penny ticket at the beginning of the journey and saved unnecessary trouble. “Na, na!” said the Scot, “had I dune sae, and yer had broken doon, I micht hae lost thrup-pence, but, as it is, I canna lose mair than ae penny.”