Tam – a wooden-legged tramp goes into a shop for tobacco. Seeing that there is bogie-rowe (a type of rolled tobacco) for sale, Tam, brandishes a silver half-crown and asks how much he can get for that. For this, the shopkeeper offers him a much as can fit between Tam’s feet. Tam points out that his other foot is buried twenty miles away.
Note that this story reappears in Barrowsgate’s story “Moley Brodie”.