Unit 5 A Customs Officer.
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1. A train stopped at the French frontier. The passengers opened their trunks and bags, suit-cases and waited for the inspection by the customs.]]>2. One of the first-class passengers took out a whole lot of boxes and thick packets of cigarettes out of his trunk - he wanted to put them all into his pockets.]]>3. When his pockets were already stuffed full and he couldn't fit in any more, he said to another man standing at the window, 'Can you take the rest of these boxes and packets and try to fit them into your own pockets?']]>4. 'Can't you leave them in your trunk, in your suit-case?' the other asked.
'No. If I do, then I shall have to pay the duty on them.' was the reply.]]>5. 'Very well,' said the man at the window. 'If you give them to me but I have to tell you now that I won't be giving you them back.'
'Why not?'
'I'm an officer of the French customs,' was the reply.]]>