Hope this doesn't make any of you turn wide-eyes now! I've had this screencap on my computer (from I think either archive.org or a private website that had pdfs archival) for a good several years by now. You got to wonder exactly what the editor was wondering indeed
LOL! My dad's brother was a mischievous lout. A real Loki, a master prankster. The neighbor had a new Model A and was so proud of the fuel economy and bragged on it over the fence. Richard immediately came up with a plan. He siphoned off a gallon. The neighbor was concerned and confounded. All his hand calculations showed a problem. Richard repeated this on the next fill up. More hand wringing. Then he started putting it back, randomly.
That made me laugh, but it shouldn't really because I had a fair bit of experience of the steelworks in Sheffield as a lad and quite frankly nothing that went on inside the gates would surprise me. (I also have stories of "acquiring" Avgas from a fuel tanker at a local commercial airport while working night shift from around the same time frame.)
Reminds me of an episode of Gomer Pyle.
Could be Earnest T and Charlene