---------- Missing a train is no joke for us ordinary mortals, though it may do one's heart good if we learn to take things easy.

Three men had drunk a bit too freely and arrived at the station just a second before the train was due to depart. One of them managed to get aboard, the second caught the hand-rail as the train pulled out and dragged himself aboard.

But the third man could not make it. Standing on the platform he began to shake with laughter. "I dont see why you are laughing, " remarked a by-stander, "After all, you missed the train.

" "Yes, I did, " said the tipsy one, "but my friends will be pretty sorry too. They came down to see me off.

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