On 15-Nov-10, at 8:25 PM, K V Railway wrote:
I remember one old, now departed, CPR official attempting to getI'm seeing a new career for myself as an international cat burglar à
some photos
out of another, also now departed, CPR official. These guys had both
had
some interesting stuff and were each collecting anything and
everything they
could lay their hands on. Neither was particularly inclined to
spread it
around. After a few rebuffs, my old friend muttered that our mutual
acquaintance was 'like a hen sitting on chalk eggs.' The comment was
all
the more amusing to me because that was a classic case of the coffee
pot
calling the tea kettle black!