"Commutation ticket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one occasion it is related that he invited a brother officer, Captain Macomb, out home for the night, and as the latter had no mount, Lee took him up behind himself, and down Pennsylvania Avenue they went, saluting other officers whom they encountered, with great glee. That was one time when a commutation ticket was good ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden
... the police got through with me, and returned my pie-card I turned it in for a commutation ticket, and there are still a few feeds to the good on it. The commutation ticket is the proper card for a gentleman in straitened circumstances. You are not obliged to gorge yourself at early morn with a ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman |
