MUTUAL APPRECIATION.
Mr. Pett Ridge, who haa suoh a fund of Cockney anecdotes at his disposal, tells one regarding a young man of the "knut" type, who got into an omnibus one day, and was evidently very much disgusted because the only vacant seat was next to a big coster woman, whose home was moßt assuredly in the East End. The "knut" eyed her contemptuously, but took tho seat nevertheless as gingerly as possible. His manner was not lost upon the pockney. "I dossay you wishes you was sittjn' next to. a gentleman," she said with a sniff. "I do," he answered decisively. "Yue, and co do L/'^flashed the woman, to the great amusement of the other passengers. i t
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 17
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